[ale] Wireless LAN connection sharing

[Christopher Ness]

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 04:02 pm, 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.
> Thanks in advance,
> Stephen Touset
>
bind your 802.11 radio modems (that's what they are) to the ax25 somehow and 
use RSPF? Is there some kind of KISS mode to an  Orinoco? With a TNC this 
used to be trivial. We used to do it on 2 meters with a DOS based program. 
And I have had it running under Linux (its in the source code).  I just gave 
up due to lack of traffic and a 1200baud limit without spending abt. $700 for 
56k. Now we have these 802.11b devices like the Orinoco which are what,like a 
T1? And they don't even require a HAM ticket.


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