Hi, I just joined the list and have been exploring the relevant web pages.
I'm excited to get involved -- I first encountered the idea of community
mesh networks at the early meetings of Personal Telco in Portland when
802.11b was just starting to become widespread, and have been hoping to
have a chance to participate in something like this ever since.
I'm at 32nd and Adeline (node "phorzaith"), and from consulting the node
map I think I may have decent line of sight to tunabanana and TSA, a little
more than half a kilometer down Adeline St. and across the street; and
maybe even Hearth. (woody and OMI are also close, but I think line of sight
would be difficult.) I have a first floor apartment, which isn't ideal, but
I might be able to work with neighbors upstairs or a couple doors down to
get better antenna position. I have questions about mounting a router vs.
just mounting the antenna -- anything in my front yard and positioned to
reach that far down the street would, I think, be at risk of theft. I'd be
happy to donate a portion of my Internet bandwidth, provided that I have
the ability to turn it off temporarily on occasion -- my DSL connection
maxes out at about 3Mbps down and 1Mbps up.
I'm going to try to attend the meetup tomorrow. Unfortunately Thursday
nights are bad for me, so I can't usually do in person stuff. If anybody
has specific stuff to point me toward to read or think about before the
meetup, please do!
Pete
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