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Building A Community Wireless Network From Scratch
adelayde writes "This summer I've been involved in a project to build a community-orientated wireless network in the city of Bristol, England. Recently I published an article ( mirrored here and here) describing what we have achieved so far, including some interesting thoughts on passive repeaters. There is a supporting site (mirrored here) with detailed instructions on how to build antennae, and the main project web site is also available here. A bit of own trumpet blowing perhaps, but I think it'll be of interest to those readers involved in similar projects and be of some help to those thinking of starting their own."
Similar projects for Seattle, Washington and Sonoma County, California can be found here and here, respectively.
-Kaos
I know this has been mentioned in another post, but apropros of this article, the Waterloo Wireless group is (or was, I haven't heard from them in some time) trying for complete world domination at 11Mbit/sec.
I personally think that Tim Horton's (for those of you who need a reference, Timmies is like Krispy Kreme without all the ambience) should go all Starbuck's on us and implement wireless access points in their coffee shops. Well, at least around the University of Waterloo, anyway.
-- clvrmnky