On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:08:17AM -0500, Austad, Jay wrote: > I strongly oppose blocking any traffic at all. If you pay for an internet > connection, you should be able to pass any traffic you want through it > unmolested. Traffic shaping is easy to implement though, so I don't forsee > any bandwidth problems that can't be solved with a few rules. I think it's going to be a per-node basic, as has been said, this isn't necessarily for providing internet, it's for building the network. Internet access might be a side effect. > I don't really see this as being a mobile ip type network though, it > would require vast amounts of equipment and money. The reason Ricochet was > able to do it is because their product does not need direct line of sight > and has a range of up to a mile. 802.11 (don't know about Canopy), almost > always needs line of sight, and your range won't be more than a couple > hundred feet without a directional antenna, and those are hard to keep > pointed while you're driving. :) > Eh? With a 5db magmount (maxrad) that had about 2db cable loss (3db at the radio) I was easily able to stay connected to an 8db 100mw or so radio sitting ~150 feet in the air for miles.. of course, if you're using your wireless card with the pcb antenna, and an access point with a 3db antenna, you'll get a few hundred feet. The full cost of an access point, with an 8db omni, will run as low as $150 (donated 486+ with PCMCIA or PCI wireless card), range can be extended by using either an amp, or a larger antenna (12db perhaps). I think people fail to understand how easy it is to propogate a signal many many miles. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203