At last I have revealed myself? Hee Hee, couldn't help that one, especially with Star Wars on the brain! (cough) Anyways, I don't know if I will be at the meeting or not. I still have schoolwork for one more week, but we will see. I'll try. As I mentioned in a couple of posts, I don't even have any gear... Yet. I have worked at an ISP that did wireless internet access for businesses up in Fargo back in '99 and 2000. The 802.11, 900Mhz crap, WaveLan, fun stuff. One of the guys I worked with wrote a custom auth package, that I believe is still being used by http://www.ruralaccess.net/ up in northern Minnesota for their cheapo Linux routers. It is kind of neat that back home "in the sticks" they do have wireless internet, and have had it for quite a while ('99 also). They have setup a "string of pearls configuration", with antennas on grain elevators. An omni on each one and point-to-points going between each town. Backbone connections on each end of the string, its pretty slick. Broadband in towns as small as ~150 people! (Rural Access dropped dial-up completely.) My friends that work there have all kinds of real world experience with antennas and the like, so they could be a big help. <blatant promo>They are also starting to setup networks down here for schools and other businesses.</blatant promo> All of this has been going on in the background with me, so it is easy to see where my interest came from. Now that it is summer, I'll be making the big $$$ again, so you can bet I'll be picking up some hardware! How else am I going to get those Mp3's to the car? ;-) Travis travis at neodreams.com -----Original Message----- From: tcwug-list-admin at tcwug.org [mailto:tcwug-list-admin at tcwug.org] On Behalf Of Andy Warner Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:50 PM To: tcwug-list at tcwug.org Subject: Re: [TCWUG] interest in an actual community wireless network? Travis Anderson wrote: > Hello All! > > This is my first post, but I have been monitoring for a little while > now... [...] Are you going to be at Tuesday's meeting ? -- andyw at pobox.com Andy Warner Voice: (612) 801-8549 Fax: (208) 575-5634