[MLB-WIRELESS] [TECH] Dipole antennas, and melbwireless structure

[Drew]

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>otherwise, there
>needs to be something to cause the network to scale **socially** -- ie most
>people need some sort of motivation to roll out better network
>infrastructure -- if there's no motivation to engineer more bandwidth in
>congested areas, then the network will die off as it gets large, it will
>become disconnected and disjoined into smaller areas.
>As far as I see it, we can either have a 'mojo' like system, or have a
>"test" that people have to take before they get to use the network to
>guarantee that the people are altruistic enough to donate to the system when
>they don't have to.
>
i *highly* disagree, one of the main reasons of joining this network is 
to create something that's better than what's currently available in 
australia, if people are setting up a node now, they're doing it to help 
the network (and themselves, yes). i think people already understand how 
cool this is without the need for forced motivation. if you want to go 
that route, move to sydney where they charge everyone $100 to join the 
network so that they can buy AP's, because they think nobody else will 
do it on their own. if there comes a time when the network is so popular 
that it starts getting congested, of course people are going to do some 
longer range links out of it. but in all reality this point will be 
moot, as the network will actually be the reverse of this. in the 
beginning most links *will* be long range, and the short range 
congestion will only happen after the network is quite popular, hence, 
the problem never occurs.

-D


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