[PLUG] Re: Wireless LAN Coverage in The Suburbs (Jeffrey Mealo) & Free Wireless Access (William H. Magill)

["Jeff 'Jephree' Mealo" <jeph@whydefy.us>]

Close, I'm considered Delaware County... eh, best bet would be to punch in 
19342 or Glen Mills into Map Quest for an approx idea... It says from my 
house to the center (I'd imagine) of west chester is: 8.14 miles.  I'm 
looking at a page with 24dB gain antennas using Proxim base stations for a 
3-5 mile radius.  It sounds like willing participants will have trouble 
complying with the projects guidelines if the hardware requirements aren't 
broad enough... Let's see how things go with Dell though, I guess...

Thanks,
Jeph

In response to: "Free Wireless Access (William H. Magill)" 

I don't know exactly what you were thinking, but why would you call me selfish 
for wanting to share my bandwidth.  You assumed I was asking to use it and 
not contribute.  Unless you were using me as an example of why those 
providing the bandwidth would feel like they were getting stiffed.  As far as 
I'm concerned I'd give $50 if I could give even 15KBs connections to a few 
people.  a) bandwidth is like electricity in every sense, use it or loose it 
someone else might as well have what I'm not using b) why can't packets carry 
a priority like processes do? Anyway I'm branching off into a completely 
different subject, you obviously misunderstood what I was asking.  I was more 
referring to "where is the bandwidth coming from"?

Also how much is a block of IPs exactly (let's say a class c network).
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