[Cu-wireless] I would be interested in attending the next meeting.

[Nicholas D. Buraglio]

You may run into problems trying to compete with ICN for school bandwidth.  As far as I can tell they have pretty 
much cornered the marked providing for schools, Libraries, etc.  I could be wrong. 
NB

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 06:11:28AM -0500, Ralph Johnson wrote:
> >It's times like these that I wish East Central Illinois had a bit 
> >more geoligical relief than it does.  
> 
> Two ideas.
> 
> First, eventually we want to cover all of town.  So, there will be
> lots of stations between you and downtown Urbana.  You don't have
> to talk all the way to downtown, you just have to talk to your
> neighbor.  It might be more cost-effective to start your own
> little hub and then try to grow it south, while the downtown
> Urbana region is growing north.
> 
> Second, what we need are tall buildings with flat roofs.  Then
> we don't need to build very big towers to get over the trees.
> It occurred to me that schools are perfect for this.  They are
> almost always at least two floors, and have flat roofs.  It might
> be possible to get grant money to connect the schools, and then
> we would have nodes all through towns.  The network could grow
> out from the schools.
> 
> -Ralph
> 
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