[Cu-wireless] Local ISP

[Robert Gallup]

I have been a member of your list since we purchased AdvanceNet in CU a
year ago.  eGIX may be interested in further pursuing the topic Ralph
mentioned.

Once you formulate your strategy please contact me so we can discuss.
Thanks,
Bob
Robert P. Gallup
Executive VP - Sales & Marketing
(317) 290-5500
eGIX, Inc.
www.egix.com



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Today's Topics:

   1. Thinking ahead (Ralph Johnson)
   2. Re: DWL-520 saga continues. (Bruce Best (CRO))

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2002 08:59:16 -0500
From: Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu>
To: <cu-wireless at lists.groogroo.com>
Subject: [Cu-wireless] Thinking ahead

The CUGWIP home page has a paragraph about how a "random for profit ISP"
could get involved.  Are there any representatives of these
organizations
who are involved?  If not, do you know people who work at one?

I imagine we all have different visions of the future of the CU wireless
system.  My vision is that anybody, in any part of town, could get a
free
connection.  But connection to what?  A free connection to the internet
doesn't seem feasible.  If traffic starts to grow and the ISPs discover
that
a large part of their traffic (i.e. costs) is due to freeloaders, they
will
get upset and do something about it.  So, there will have to be other
ways
of going to the internet besides using a piece of someone's cable modem.
The group could rent a T3 line, but that is expensive.  Who will pay for
it?

My suggestion is that what people get for free is a connection to any
place
in town.  You don't get a connection to the internet unless you make
some
arrangements.  The ISPs will sell you a piece of their pipe for so much
per
month.  Visitors could also buy a few days of access on their credit
card or
by PayPal.  The ISPs will have antennas to tap into the community net,
which
will also contribute to the infrastructure.  But they will be looking to
make money off of this, not thinking of it as just for the good of the
community.  

If this is true, we should get at least one ISP involved.  It would help
the
network grow to have that kind of support.

On a related topic, the university should be involved.  They could put
up a
few antennas, convince students to tap into the wireless net, and get
rid of
a bunch of modems and phone lines.  They would NOT be expected to pass
packets to the internet, but they would be expected to pass packets from
one
of their antennas to another.  In other words, the campus should be part
of
the grid, not just make use of it.  I'm an university employee, so I am
probably a good person to look into this if nobody better is available.

-Ralph Johnson


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Message: 2
From: "Bruce Best (CRO)" <bestb at lao.on.ca>
To: "'cu-wireless at lists.groogroo.com.'" <cu-wireless at lists.groogroo.com>
Cc: "'dyoung at pobox.com'" <dyoung at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [Cu-wireless] DWL-520 saga continues.
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 12:02:55 -0400 

Saw your posting about the DWL-520 through a Google search; I also went
through a lot of head scratching trying to figure out why it would only
work
in certain computers.

I bought the card to put in my linux gateway, which was a Pentium 133.
The
problem for me, it turns out, is that the DWL-520 _requires_ a PCI 2.2
compliant mainboard. This means forget about using it in anything
earlier
than a Pentium-II. 

This was confirmed in an email from D-Link technical support. They have
yet
to respond to my question of why this compatibility issue is not
mentioned
on the box, in the documentation, or on the website. 

Bruce



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