Phoenix Area Wireless Freenet? (PAWF!)

Hello,

Although I recently moved from the PHX area to DEN, I still subscribe to
this great list. This thread got me excited, as there is a small(but
growing) group of people I work with trying to get a community type wireless
network thrown together. Something that might be good to do would be to
link the various groups/networks together via IPsec(Freeswan works great),
that way the(private) networks in PHX, DEN etc could work together
seamlessly. Feel free to contact me off/on list if you are interested in
trying something like this, or want to know the details about what we are
trying.

Thanks,

-dallas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick STODDARD" <wd9ewk@yahoo.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: Phoenix Area Wireless Freenet? (PAWF!)


> 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
>
>
>

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

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