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Community Networking Made Easy

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 1, 2003 @05:32PM from the but-this-one-goes-to-11-km dept.

Rob Flickenger writes "I for one am sick and tired of all of the work it takes to build out wireless community networks. Evidently, so was the Linksys Community Network: a Real Network project for the masses. It's about time somebody did something to bring Wi-Fi to the People."

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Now seriously though... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-04-01 18:13 · Score: 1, Insightful

It would be nice if there was a way to intelligently bond multiple wireless connections into one. That way if you had multiple access points, say in an apartment building, everyone could share the bandwidth through the walls. I wouldn't mind having 5 cable/dsl connections piped to my laptop.

Granted, knowing what I do know about wireless collission detection there is a limit to this before it gets counterproductive since it CAN'T detect collisions, it can only warn everyone and pray they play fair.

I think the only reason something like a wireless "community" isn't considered more seriously is because there's no benefit to having access to more than your own, unless you don't have one to begin with and you're leeching of course.