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A Solution For Making WiFi Cost Effective

Posted by timothy on from the salt-for-leeches dept.

rkohutek writes "This whitepaper came out of my employer's desire to deploy high speed wireless internet to an underserved, mostly rural area. Although very easy to do on the ground level, I found it to not be a cake walk when it came to actually making it a viable network case -- in a "normally" deployed wireless network it is very easy to spoof an IP or MAC address and hop on the network and get free bandwidth. This is not acceptable and the acronym WARTA, Wireless Authentication, Routing, Traffic control, Accounting was thought up to cover the things that we needed to do. Read on for how we managed to make it work using Free Software: HTML or PDF." Update: 06/07 20:42 GMT by T : He sends along word of this mirror as well.

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  1. Hmm... by DrLudicrous · · Score: 5, Funny

    Free software being used to keep people from getting free bandwidth. How ironic.

  2. How to make WiFi Cost Effective. by Malicious · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do I make WiFi Cost Effective?
    Simple, I use someone else's network.

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  3. Free software? by garrulous · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Read on for how we managed to make it work using Free Software: HTML or PDF." I didn't realize that one could route wireless signals with nothing but HTML and PDF standards.

  4. I thought... by confused+philosopher · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought we were supposed to make WiFi affordable by using empty Pringles cans and Floppy disks as the antennas rather than shelling out big bucks for custom made ones?

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  5. Re:"Free" by rkz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sco wont sue you for drinking free beer!

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  6. I tried to do something useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I tried to post the short article, but the lameness filter barfed with too many junk characters. It can't tell the difference between config files and junk!

    Proud to be a /. article poster, murdering the bandwidth of students since 1998!

    But the filter let me post this!