[Syd-Wireless] RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Is Melbourne Wireless dead?

[Tony Langdon (ATC)]

> > I can see where you're coming from too.  You're taking what 
> could be 
> > called a "realist" approach.  I tend to lean a bit more towards the 
> > ideal side of things, because I'm the kind of person that 
> will find a 
> > use for an AP stuck up in the air, and if someone else 
> comes along for 
> > the ride, that's a bonus. If not, well, it's still going to 
> serve my uses.
> 
> Actually this is where I ended up with wireless, I have no 
> desire to be 
> involved with running a city wide area network, if I can hit it from 
> home great, if not well I have my own AP I can use to sit outside and 
> type emails :)

I'm happy to get involved "because I can", but it's not a prerequisite for
me throwing something up.  I do have a few minor issues to deal with, but
they are just the run of the mill ones of how to mount the AP (already have
an AP for local access), and the like.
> 
> > It depends on the person.  Sure, 99.9% of the population just want 
> > something that works - guaranteed, or free/cheap/etc.  But for me, 
> > that kind of stuff gets, well, boring, unless I can play 
> with the guts of the thing.
> 
> The older I get the more I fall into this category, sure new 
> things are 
> fun to play with, but after a while it becomes more of a 
> chore then new 
> toy... (This is my reasoning for using Debian/Ubuntu, they just work 
> more or less out of the box, I don't have to keep fixing things...)

Hehe, well, I haven't played with Ubantu yet, but from what I've heard, it
sounds good.

> > installation at this stage - incorporating real PSTN has a few more 
> > hurdles of the human variety to overcome.... :-/
> 
> Ummm not with asterisk, I setup my dialling plan in asterisk 
> to mimic a 
> normal Sydney Telstra exchange complete with Australian sounding dial 
> tone so when a phone call is made from my house I have no idea what 
> route it took unless I check logs...

Cool.  I'll probably end up going this way as I gain more international
contacts.

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