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Lanlink Linking The Coasts
Dan Bricker writes "A guy in Parma Heights, Ohio has a website to promote an idea of linking the east coast to the west coast using standard off-the-shelf 802.11 equipment. He is aiming for a July 4th, 2006 first coast-to-coast ping. This project appears to be totally volunteer based, With no other stated reason than fun with pringle cans and bad weather, and do it just to do it. Can this be done? What real world applications does this have?"
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My black ass is right on the Chesapeake Bay, pretty far East and right in the middle of the coast. I would do it. Send my black ass an email at info@myblackasswilldoityo.com
These guys apparently expect to build a full routed network with their own IP addressing scheme that will encompass the entire US and *NOT* connect to the public internet. Riiigggghhhttttt.
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Excuse me, but don't we already *have* a perfectly good public internet? What is the value of LanLinkup? Its good slashdot fodder but what other purpose does it have? None, I say, and I'd like to see anyone come up with a valid counter to this.
If *I* were going to spend time picking fights with windmills, I'd be trying to roll out an IPv6 scheme, I'd certainly let people connect it to the public internet(as if that is something that can be dictated), and I'd avoid 802.11b like the plague - go google for "Icom" and "D-STAR" and see the future - 128kbit connections that can reach twenty or more miles from a well done base station, 10GHz repeater links, voice as well as data
So, if you *really* want to get involved in hooking stuff together, ignore the wireless lan technology, go get your ham technician ticket, and get with the program.
I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid. -Theo
Five mile 802.11 range? Nigga please. Please show me a router that you can buy off the shelf that covers even half that distance. And if you did actually have 60,000 routers, then twenty or so going bad each day would not be out of the ordinary I think. That's a mean time between failure of about 2,000 days which is about six years. We're talking about stuff you buy at BestBuy here, these things aren't bullet proof and they do fuck up frequently. And about your call boxes, what you have to take into account is that these boxes are nailed into the ground and the phones are pretty much unremovable from the base structure. No one steals these things because they are impossible to steal without a sledge hammer or something. You could build something similar for your routers, but at what cost? $1000 per unit seems like a lowball estimate. $1000 * 60,000 = $60 million. And then you have to go nail them into the ground, have fun doing this 60,000 times.
In conclusion, you are either a total moron, or a total idiot. Wait, sorry, you're probably both.
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