User: zobo

Re:Blows DSL out of the water?

On: Ethernet Over Assorted Materials

Can you contact me at vdsl9 at hotmail.com, I would like to ask you a few more details about your deployment
thanks

Re:Blows DSL out of the water?

On: Ethernet Over Assorted Materials

Can you give more details about your VDSL rollout? What area? What equipment? etc.

Range Reality Check

On: Wanted - 45 Mile Wireless Broadband?

Here is an article called "Range Reality Check" that looks at the range from a purely physical perspective. The conclusion drawn by the author, one of the NoCat folks, is that

"...your antennas would have to be at least 104 feet above the surrounding terrain, separated by 25 miles, pointed directly at the ground 12.5 miles away, with no intervening ground clutter."

So, in theory the original poster could achieve a range of ~50 miles with a repeater station (PC with two 802.11b cards) at the midpoint, 4 high-gain directional antennas, etc.

Not necessarily insecure

On: Wireless Freenets

The folks at http://nocat.net/ are working on the security issue with some GPL'd software (http://nocat.net/download/NoCatAuth-0.20.tar.gz) that authenticates in a reasonably secure fashion, without having to trust the local gateway, and assigns three classes of service: Node Owner, Community Member (other node owner), and Guest. Bandwidth allocations and firewall proxies are set based on the class of service.

Re:Scott, there hast to be a better way.

On: Scott McCloud on Comics and the Internet, part 2

What about something like Ecount?