From: Declan de Lacy Murphy (decdelmur at domain iol.ie)
Date: Thu 23 Aug 2001 - 12:43:21 IST
To stick an airial up in howth pointed at rathfarnham and get a signal you
would be pretty lucky, first of all at that range you will need either line
of sight or quite a bit of power, add to that the fact that you are going to
need antennas at both end on pretty high mountings (you don't have a spare
mobile phone base station do you?, no seriously do you?)
You're right about sharing internet though, if we set up in the right way
then we could very legitmately have broadband permanent connections for a
reasonable price, although it would be quite front loaded. For a big network
we could be looking at the guts of 1000 each to set up (cards, cables, amps,
antennas, mountings, base station). If we were to do that though we would be
best to go to the odtr and ask for a licence which I think we would probably
get.
Declan
----- Original Message -----
From: Conor Daly <conor.daly at domain oceanfree.net>
To: <ilug at domain linux.ie>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] [ot] Wireless Networks
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 07:31:15PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Niall O Broin thought:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:02PM +0100, Declan de Lacy Murphy wrote:
> >
> > equipment but with high gain directional aerials you can get huge
> > improvements in range.
>
> So, if I stick a directional antenna up on Howth Summit pointing at
> Rathfarnam, I'll be away in a hack?
>
> > > We will probably at some point get in a leased line for internet
connection
> > > and share it across the network.
> >
> > This is where it gets interesting, of course. Has anyone considered the
> > legal/regulatory aspects of this ? Rest assured, big brother isn't
watching
> > (at least not through my eyes) but he might be :-)
>
> I presume that could be dealt with by incorporating as a Co-operative
> Society, hiring a leased line for the society's network and who cares what
> your network layout is? We have offices 20-30 km apart sharing a single
> internet connection. If the cards themselves are licensed as radio
> devices, all should be cool.
>
> Conor (spouting again)
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