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If anyone is interested in trying this in the Williamsport, Pennsylvania area, drop me one line! Rob Lynn <rjlynn@suscom.net>
Hey Ryan (and any other Eastside-residents), drop me a line! I'm also an Eastsider... EricSchmiedl <eric343@2alpha.com>
If anyone stumbled on this page from Austin Texas, we already have a group. Please visit AustinWireless to get more information. Join the mailing list. Come to our next meeting. See you all there!
Hem Ramachandran
If anyone is interested in starting a similar wireless Idea in Italy (Reggio Emilia) please email me at d.prandi@tin.it. I will be able to provide a similar web hosting for free, and also help with providing a location for one transmission point. Davide Prandi
SeattleWireless is a great idea. I've been waiting for the proletariat to rise up and string Ethernet cables around their neighborhood to eliminate that LastMile hogwash. You guys are doing them one better. Sadly, I do not live on CapitolHill.
This sounds like a lovely project. Where are the current nodes, and would it be possible to hook up a large antenna and open it up to other parts of the city? I can be contacted at peterbc@u.washington.edu.
This is a really cool site and a not to mention a great idea as well. It would be great to see a project like this take off nationally. I would love to see a project like this get started in San Diego
I've been thinking about this for the past few weeks in my neighborhood of Ballard. I'd like to participate, even if to just volunteer time and contribute what little know how I have. I live on a hill in Ballard, so you never know... Please contact me at meilicke at bigfoot.com.
I too live in Ballard, aboard a sailboat on the canal, and this is a great prject for me, as soon as I have time to build that 2.4GHz colinear antenna... warlock@eskimo.com
Greetings: I found out about your group from today's Wired article (http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,38803,00.html).
I live in downtown Portland and have been working on a wireless freenet proposal in North Portland. I work at a Community Center (http://www.universitypark.org) there. It serves the highest concentration of low-income housing in the state (Columbia Villa). My thought is that a Liberate Settop http://www.thinknic.com ($199), http://www.epods.com , http://www.indrema.com or http://www.transmeta.com, could link to the center with hubs using Hygain antennas http://www.hyperlinktech.com/hg2415u.htm They were used for Playanet http://www.playanet.org/ at Burning Man. My hope is that broadband access with a settop box or webpad can be provided for low-income residents for $10/month.
I have a survey of technologies at http://www.universitypark.org/webcam . I live next to the Portland State campus and have a PSU Wireless LAN website with sdafsdfds/psuwireless/
Thanks for providing inspiration and leadership in wireless LANs. I'm already working on a hand-held guide to North Portland!
- Sam Churchill samc@teleport.com
Great comments
I'm currently bathing Edmonds in wireless right now, using my line-of-sight cross-sound T1 (that ties back to the Westin). I can probably also give a portion of the Edmonds/Kingston Ferry run too. Sounds like fun. mgmead@meadgroup.com
I'm moving into a house on Sunset hill with line of sight to most of Ballard, most of the west slope of Phinney ridge, Queen Anne and Magnolia. I like the idea of shared wireless access, and am already intending to install 802.11 equipment in my house. carle@destructo.com
I read about consume.net and thought it would be cool if someone would do this in Seattle. My prayers have been answered. I would love to contribute, although I don't have much money and my house doesn't have a good line of sight with anyone. I live on Mercer Island so feel free to contact me at andrewjh97 at aol.com
I'd love to jump onto this project. Sounds like too much fun. Has anyone started seeding the Eastside? I live in the Bothell/Kenmore area (at a decent elevation). Ryan <rcalafato@hotmail.com>
I'm in the Vancouver BC area, looking for other people locally who are doing work like this. I'm concentrating on the routing and long-haul aspects of peer-over-peer links.
I noticed that you will be using 10.x.x.x addresses. I think that you might want to look in to IPv6. It has a lot to offer something like this. - AC
SeattleWireless received some very good press in this mornings Washington Post Friday Dec 8, 2000 Aleem@erols.com 'The NetPlex on the East Coast'
It would be interesting to see if anyone here is doing stuff like this in the Pittsburgh area. Anyone?
I'm in the Tacoma North End area, Anyone know of an ongoing project in Tacoma, or would you want to start one?
- Scott (srp@tworoads.net)
03/28/01 Hi - Rooftops NYC is getting started in New York - http://www.geocities.com/rooftopsnyc Anthony Townsend (townsnda@yahoo.com)
I'm looking for people who would join me doing this stuff in Phoenix, AZ. - Jawahar Mundlapati
05/01/01 The New York City project now has a domain name. http://www.nycwireless.net/ Also check out the PoE (Power Over Ethernet) Howto. http://www.nycwireless.net/poe/ - Terry
05/08/01 I work for a small wireless company in the downtown area. We have a 100' Tower with LOS views of Ranier Valley, North side of Beacon Hill, and the I-5/I-90 interchange. This sounds like a fun project and I would love to get involved.
- Chris
05/15/01 I work for an Internet Presence Provider in Woodinville area. Currently installing a 3-5 mile link to a home office 802.11b network with Cable modem link to internet. Just a start!
Now I plan to add a 20+ mile link!
See http://www.hiweb.net or Email bhiley@hiweb.net 
BrettHiley
Anyone interested in trying this in Minneapolis/St.Paul. Drop me an email at sberlin@net-info.com
2001-05-28 Yahoo! A public list of cities throughout France where 802.11b devices can be used on the 2.4 GHz band has been published by the ART authority. In major areas, this means that MAN networks can start up now. Welcome to the Paris-Wireless project ! Look at http://www.art-telecom.fr/ for details about cities where it is now possible (nearly all major cities and their suburbans). http://www.multimania.com/wirelessfr/ is the start of the French project. Some users here have started to extend their wired DSL link to Internet using routers to their 802.11b air network, and they start sharing their available bandwidth they can get through their current wired ISP...
06/17/01 Is anyone doing WLAN in Snohomish County? todd@wilburn.com MCP, N7ZWQ
2001-06-28 Hi, I am at Montreal (and french speaking, so sorry for my english). I like the idea of a wireless network and would like to know if there is other Montreal people around here to speak about it and why not starting the same thing here.
4rth July, 2001 (have a great celebration Americans ;o)
Hi, I'm French and I just found your site after I saw an article in "Le Monde 2", took some a little searching to find you but it wasn't that difficult (Thanks Google !). I haven't read through the whole site yet but is anyone aware of such initiatives as yours in France ? Thanks benoit.gruselle@libertysurf.fr
13th July, 2001
Hi, Everyone I would like to start something like this in Little Rock, AR, 802.11 technology sounds great, anyone interested please email me at anshul_badhwar@hotmail.com
Hi, anyone knows of similar Projects in Germany? I live in Oldenburg and Work in Wilhelmshaven, maybe we can start something similar here... Patrick DOT Guenther AT web DOT de
I'm interested in starting a similar project in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Also, I'm looking to assist in documenting this. What will work and what won't. Diagrams are what I like. If somebody would be willing to help me understand the node structure... How routing works, etc, etc. I would be willing to go through the diagraming and documentation. You can see some of my work @ http://www.LANParty.com/ Feel free to contact me (Andrew 'Mickey Knox' Gearhart): mickey@LANParty.com
Hello,
- A few friends of mine and I are starting a wireless project in Albuquerque New Mexico. We're planning on limiting our service to the University (UNM) area, however we are also looking into the concept of repeaters, or perhaps tying base stations together using coaxial. Since I (Dave T.) seem to be the one with the most networking and/or amateur radio experience, it's my job to research a lot of technical aspects of multiple relay points and come up with a feasibility report. Anyone out there have experience in this sort of thing? Any Electrical Engineers willing to do a little pro-bono work, or perhaps shoot the sh*t over beers? Drop me a lineDave Taggart, Grand High Poobah of Implementation
Dallas, Texas -- Today DallasFreeNet was born. Look for more details soon at DallasFreeNet.com. We bought our first 802.11b D-Link cards today and plan to retrofit them with pigtails tomorrow. We already had the 2.4Ghz antennas from another project. Next week we should turn up our first two mile link between 2323 Bryan (downtown) and 4040 North Central Expressway (uptown). This will all be linked through LayerOne's 100Mbps Internet pipe located at 2323 Bryan. We are considering augmenting our antennas with automatic gain control amplifiers from HyperAmp (perhaps .5 or 1 watt) - does anyone have any experience with them? http://www.hyperlinktech.com/html/products/amplifiers_2400.html
Next on our todo list will be the addition of two nodes North of downtown the first to be located at Park Lane and 75 and the second to be located at Royal and Greenville. If you are interested in adding a node please email me at amuse@layerone.com. Check back for updates and check out our website in the next few weeks.
Hello, I am intereted in taking this idea to places where people have no access to the internet, especially schoolage children. Is there anyonw willing to help me with technical issues? Thanks all, one of the truly great ideas in technology. sonic-planet@mindspring.com.
Anyone interested in wireless networks in the Dayton, Ohio area please come to the Dayton 2600 meetings the first Friday of the month at 5pm at Marion's behind the Dayton Mall. http://www.chaph.org/~dayton2600/
To those who are asking about existing community networks in the rest of the world, please take a look at http://www.toaster.net/wireless/community.html
If anyone would be interested in setting something like this up in the Philadelphia area (Delaware county)please email me at jim@airpower.com
Cardiff Wales UK is online too. See http://www.arwain.net
Anyone interested in doing this type of setup in Tucson, AZ? I've got a lot of 802.11 experience as well as amateur radio... would love to start this up..
Calgary, AB, Canada - I'm here, and I'd like to fire up a wireless net. I'll suggest Weeds Cafe on 20th Ave and 18th St NW as a starting point; and one at my house too! Anyone else interested? wbortz at telusplanet.net This is very cool; free wireless and coffee! I've got DSL, just need to find a cheap wireless hub.
-update 25.11.01 - hub is up, got 2 nodes going, let me know if you're interested. wade.
Let's do this in Montreal too!!
Northwest Spokane (Indian Trail). Let's get something going! email: ericmtownsend@yahoo.com
Moscow Idaho Here, Just off of the University of Idaho Campus. (Which currently provides on-campus limited acess to wireless networks at http://helpdesk.uidaho.edu/wireless ) I am interested in working with 802.11b, networking all of the poor college student in my area. If you have any usful info for me, drop me a mail at marcusmunn@yahoo.com
I am in Boise, ID and would like to know if there is anyone in the area doing this. Please e-mail me at mike@mikebishop.com.
Hi, Any one from Karachi , Pakistan want to start Free Net in Karachi , send me email , kotrade@yahoo.com Kamran
