[ale] Wireless LAN connection sharing

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Stephen Touset wrote:

> A few friends and I had the idea that we could set up directional (or
> omnidirectional) antennas pointing to each others houses, so that we can
> have not only a LAN between us, but also so that we can use each other's
> DSL lines at the same time, assuming they aren't. It would be
> decentralized, and there would be paths from each house to one to three
> other houses, for redundancy and because of distance constraints.
> We've been doing some research, but we figure that some actual experience
> may help us do this. Has anyone ever set up something like this? Any
> tidbits of information such as expected range, setup, costs, etc. would be
> astronomically handy, and accepted with utmost gratitude.

Sounds like a job for MeshAP: http://americas.locustworld.com/


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Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
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