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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. How about... by PS-SCUD · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Making the antenna out of an old floppy drive and paper clips? [Slashdot story]

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  2. Maybe this is a dumb question but... by santos_douglas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If their goal is deploying wifi in a 'rural' area, is unpaid access really that big a problem? I mean it's not like there's a subdivision in between points. Are they worrying about the one or two farmers in between piggybacking?