Re: wi-fi info

On Thursday 15 July 2004 12:08 am, Ayden wrote:
> There are a lot of problems with that, it's like all those companies
> that built huge fiber infrastructures down in the lower 48, they all
> went bankrupt. The only people that have ever made any money building
> infrastructure are the people who build it to sell, like alaska's cable
> infrastructure, GCI turned an average infrastructure(that was built to
> sell), into one of the best in the united states. If you tried to write
> a business plan for something like that, it would never work, you'd
> never make a profit, unless you sold it to some company. Who would want
> to buy the service that you're offering? Who would supply A) the space
> for these different nodes to go up around town(on top of buildings and
> such) B)who would supply the money for these things to be built C) who
> would maintain it? Lets say you did manage to drum up enough money to
> build all the infrastructure, now you're faced with the problem of
> demand, You have way too much supply, and not enough demand, with each
> day spent, you'd loose money. Nobody would want to buy your service,
> and it couldn't be free, because no bank in the land would lend money
> to you when you don't plan to pay them back. It's a nice idea, but
> there's no way in hell it could ever be accomplished.

I totally agree! Way to much competition in this arena, BUT, if you were to move to a place
like Iraq, Africa or some other technological challenged arena, you may make it work. I heard
on 91.1 once about a wireless AP vehicle that cruzed around some streets in Africa so some
of the "privileged" could receive/send e-mail during certain times of the day. This was of
course in a really challenged area. If I remember correctly, the cats that started the project
were looking into moving on to stationary APs, funded by science/government
grants. Not millions at all, but a cool thing to do ;)

Another thing to think about, of course :) is security! Open APs are MiM havens! I kinda find it
irresponsible to open-up customers to this genre of attack without their knowledge of the
risks, from the ISO/OSI frame of mind. SCARY! Kinda lame! - only my opinion of course.

What would be fun, and kinda worth it, would be to take old computers, turn them into APs and
be selfish with em, sure have em has "hotspots" (I growl when I hear that word!) but keep it
quiet; a small grid of APs for the penguins ;) Just for the geek of it. Dorms at UAA/APU, misc
free spirited offices...heh, who knows, think about the dialog with your boss over that one...

Totally off topic; those airplane gurus in Fairbanks with that home brew airplane, in the paper
today, was the coolest thing in a long time. That plane is awsome. Truly a super geek award goes to
those birds! Incredible! I'm jealous, I wanna build a carbon fiber airplane too! WOW! I gotta take
flying lessons, ohohoh, a flying AP! heh

bedtime ;(,
eddie

> >
> > That's kinda interesting because I was thinking about setting up a
> > community network that is free to the public. Cause think about it. The
> > ability to transfer data within a community wirelessly is faster than
> > the Internet. 11mbps vs. 1.5 Yah. we can setup an intranet around
> > alaska.
> >
> > later,
> > Nate

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Received on Thu Jul 15 01:37:33 2004