Wi-Fi Warsailing In The Netherlands

Roland writes "The first war-sailing event ever, AFAIK. A community based WiFi network in Leiden, the Netherlands, WirelessLeiden hold a warsailing event [Dutch links]. The war-sailing event was meant to show that WirelessLeiden is more than just a local city network. On this map you can see that 75% of the route was covered by WirelessLeiden. Vic Hayes, the Father of WiFi, was a keynote speaker during the war-sailing event. He gave a talk about how WiFi was developed. A couple of spin-offs gave presentations, namely AnyWi and KoGeRo. FYI: WirelessLeiden [English Link] has rolled out a free WiFi network covering almost the whole city of Leiden, 100.000 inhabitants, 49 nodes with 30 more to be build this year. This is the NodeMap of WirelessLeiden."

Comments

sailing?

[crazney]

Well I can't read whatever language the web page is in.. But from the one picture I saw, and the map, it aint sailing.
Sailing is when you have a boat with a sail, and the boat move as the result of wind power.

What they seem to be doing is 'warboating'.

As far as I can tell from the map there is no way a sail boat could get around that route.

ISP=town

[Anonymous Coward]

This concern anyone else?

if its free who pays for the bandwidth ?

[Anonymous Coward]

i mean 100,000 people all on [insert p2p of choice] will use huge amounts of bandwidth, who pays for this if its free ?

The realities of WIFI

[mcrbids]

Wifi is easy to set up. ($50 at the local electronics mega-mart gives you a decent AP)

The big problem isn't the "wifi" part - it's the other half - the "Intarweb" half. See, the real expense is the Internet connection.

If I share my ADSL 1.5/384 connection with my neighbors, I'm violating terms of service, and could lose my (very important to me) Internet connection.

T1 or T3 lines, which wouldn't have the above contract restrictions, cost at least $750/month around here.

So, who provides the bandwidth? Also, assume that somebody uses YOUR wifi AP to email bomb threats to King George, WITH YOUR RETURN ADDRESS.

Now, who's in HOT WATER?

I personally think that sooner, rather than later, Internet Access will be more of a public service, provided by your Municipality. In many areas, this already happens.