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

[Ben Anderson]

I want a ubiquitous public network.  Your goals seem to be somewhat
different.  They're sort of mutually incompatible.  Public, give it to
everyone, or private, elite 'only technical capable people altruistic enough
to particpate' are allowed to join.
I'm not advocating charging money for it, anyone who wants to connect can
grab the 30dollar card that's compatible with an interface to the network in
their area, and start leeching.  They just don't get low-latency 'priority'
access to the system until they actually provide something.  Altruistic
providers could donate their mojo back to disadvantaged nodes.  I don't
think it's fundamentally less 'free' -- I think it's more free, and
encourages network building as part of the design instead of relying on
altruism.

A UPN is my ideal endpoint goal.  Can you more accuratly detail what your
endpoint goal is?

Ben.


> >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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