[MLB-WIRELESS] grumpy people - get a move on

[Giles Pollock]

At 02:47 PM 1/9/02 +1100, you wrote:
>I think the real issue here is that people want to be able to connect to the
>internet.  Not just a community network.  It does appear, for this to move
>forward a few things need to be sorted.  It is clear that there is, in
>general, a lot of interest.
>
>It is pretty obvious that without internet access the idea of a wireless
>network is not as appealing particularly if there is a substantial setup
>cost.

You could try some of those cybercafes to see if theyre interested in 
connecting... (just an idea)

>To get things going I suggest the following.

>2) Develop or get hold of some software that will allow internet bandwidth
>throttling at each node and have some form of routing request that allows
>packets to be moved around the wireless network to ensure a good spread of
>the bandwidth to the internet from internet enabled nodes. This should be
>used at each node.  There must be something around like this. I suppose a
>form of distributed internet gateway.

You could investigate the experimental Traffic Shaper in the linux kernel, 
i dont know how to use it yet but i have seen it there...

>3) Encourage Nodes to donate at least some of their internet bandwidth to a
>pool that can be used on the wireless network.

how would this be done? something like the bonding driver in linux except 
for different machines rather than network interfaces?


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