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prostoalex writes "MIT Technology Review runs a story about MIT Computer science students building their own mesh network for Internet access:
'A few weeks ago, MIT graduate student Shan Sinha canceled his broadband Internet service. Now his Net connection comes through the chimney. From a computer in the living room of his Cambridge, MA, apartment, a few blocks from the MIT campus, a cable goes into the fireplace up to the roof, where it is attached to an antenna. From there, data packets hop to another roof-mounted antenna at a nearby student's apartment. That way, from roof to roof in multiple hops, Sinha's data packets finally reach a gateway--a computer connected to the fixed Internet--at MIT's computer science building.'"
Will roof-top pigeons be used to rank the packets according to relevance ?
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But I am concerned as to the Santa friendliness of this chimney internet access. Will I still be able to get my presents if I access the internet this way.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
just by tossing a handful of bread crumbs at the MIT gateway's roof antenna?
The bold print giveth, and the fine print taketh away
...and yet I get internet access through an antenna directed at a local school, which in turn hops back to my father's office.
I guess I'm just not cool enough...
Treehugger? Treehugger... Treehugger!
So waht happens when the parents light a nice warm fire? Hehe, it's fiewire then.
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The weather forecast for the area [ http://ma.weather-forecast.ws/cambridge ] predicts thunderstorms. I guess wireing the chimneys will make this project serve as a physics lesson as well as a Internet connection.
Zap!
My friends and I always joked about doing something like this when we were in college. Of course we were brainstorming before wireless networking really emerged so we came up with some interesting ideas. Like stringing an Ethernet cable across the street, using power from a lamp post to power a repeater. Or a really expensive satellite hop to make it a few blocks away. Or maybe something with lasers...
We never actually tried anything since we figured the school wouldn't appreciate it. Just goes to show the benefits of going to a school like MIT instead of a liberal arts school.
The opinions expressed above are those off one side of my brain, the other side and my employer may not agree.
in other news, SCO articles are no longer the most popular articles on Slashdot for the first time in history. MIT articles now outnumber SCO 1337 to 1336
Wait a minute. I thought that was Crash Override.
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They are overlooking a serious installation flaw with the " in the fireplace, up the chimney" cabling. what happens when Santa comes?