[MLB-WIRELESS] What can I get on Melb Wireless.

[Lucas Lozo]

Is that $280 for a access point to become a node?? thats cheap..
old p100 for $100, maybe but if i wanted one to buy one tommorrow, prob
cost $200-$300 with monitor.
Aerial for $30, what about must, fastners etc..

If you say you can supply all that at around $500, i will give you $200
for your trouble!!
I still say will cost around $1000 and probably a little more once you
install it.
By my calculation using the cheapest hardware i know of, and using s/h
antenna is $1055 for parts alone not labour.

Filesharing/ Video conferencing is only good if you want to talk to
other melb Wireless users, and how many are online 24/7? I would want to
talk to people interstate/overseas, local is of no interest as phone
call is cheap.
And you mention 100's of megabyts of stuff, what stuff?? who or where is
this going to be housed?

Hey Don't get me wrong, When I heard about Melb Wireless i thought it
was a great idea, ran out even bought a galaxy S/H Aerial, but after
that when i started looking at cable/ Mast, access points etc
It went way over $1000, so the arial is gathering dust until i can
justify why i should get on.

I am just looking for a damn good reason to get on, and not that Mel
Wireless will die in 6 months.
A thousand dollars is a lot of money to me, to some it may be chicken
feed, but not to me, thats about 14 months of my optus cable usage...

Another Poster replied with a answer "Use my imagination", well love to
track russian satelites, Find Osma Bin Laden for the reward, get $1 for
every every Microsoft product sold, but these are just pure fantasy.

So I am looking for some real justification and uses to ahead with it.

Since there is some question on internet access legalities, so do we end
up running private Ip's?
Or do we run Fixed Ip with external access some how.
For access points and servers online now, can we publish on melb
wireless site what services, Files, facilities are running we know what
to connect to and do?

Melb Wireless with few users online will give great speed of transfer
etc, But Its like having Porshe 996 in the garage that you never drive,
so whats the point....

Just looking for a good reason.






-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Hecker [mailto:jason at air.net.au]
Sent: Thursday, 10 January 2002 1:35 PM
To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] What can I get on Melb Wireless.



>I mean If I am going to spend in excess of $1000 to set all this up
what
>use will it be to me?

Well the cost would be more like this:

Wireless card and PCI adapter:       ~$280
Old P100 running Linux as router:    <$100
20m LMR400 and connectors:            ~$100
Aerial, homemade or 2nd hand Galaxy:  $30

About $510 all up.

>So what else can i do with it???

Anything.  You can set up your own game server (you get the best ping), 
filesharing, file-pooling (as mentioned in a previous mail), voice over
IP, 
video conferencing, you name it.  I'd say the file pooling and sharing 
would be the most beneficial.  A potential conglomerate of many hundreds
of 
gigabytes worth of stuff, all downloadable for free.

>I think think the main advantage of the melb wireless stuff is for
small
>home business that cannnot afford expensive corportate/internet Data
>links between two locations.

Possibly.  But that sort of goes into the carrier arena methinks.
Perhaps 
it's not on.  But, why not?

>But then if bandwidth is consumed by these small businesses, wont other
>users/nodes etc get upset?

Yes.  I think Melb Wireless itself should have low commercial usage 
priorities as it may never ever be a reliable enough network for
business 
critical applications.


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