Hi!

I've been reading this thread, *very* interesting!  I have thought about
trying to set up some sort of wireless link between my house in Glendale
and my office in central Phoenix (about 10 miles or so by radiowave),
and have seen information about wireless freenets in other places, and
have thought about either trying something with the 802.11b equipment
or other stuff for some sort of full-time Internet access from home.

I don't have anything Qwest at home (disconnected the wired phone in 1998,
and haven't looked back - even for DSL), won't think about Cox for internet
access until at least their divorce from Excite@Home is complete, and my
Sprint PCS phone is too slow at 14.4K to do much more than e-mail or access
my office's servers when I don't want to go into the office.

>> Now, if some neighbors wanted to create a "LAN" between their homes but
>> not actually share their internet connection(s), that would be OK.  But
>> that takes some of the "shine" off the idea in the first place.
> 
> 
> The LAN idea without official Internet connection is the way to go. Avoids
> all those ISP issues. It allows room for private agreements to allow
> tunnelling. Authentication is done at the application level, not via the
> weak wireless encryption.


If the gateway was at a location that permitted an Internet connection

for something like this, what would be expected for this gateway -
access to the Internet for the wireless users (masquerading firewall
with something 802.11b and an Ethernet card on that gateway box to get
on the net), or would there be some need to provide access to the
wireless users from the Internet?

Going back to lurking mode......


Patrick



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Patrick STODDARD                E-mail: wd9ewk at yahoo dot com
Glendale, Arizona, USA          ICBM:   33.5 N 112.2 W