Wireless Neighborhood Networks in Canada

Anonymous the younger writes "Cringely once again has another column, this time with a company in Canada that does neato stuff with Open Source."

I have a neighborhood wireless network...

[ArbitraryConstant]

Half the people in my building have an SMC wireless router, they haven't changed the SSID, and they haven't put WEP on it. You can connect to the "SMC" network anywhere in the building.

If they connect to the wrong AP, they don't notice because it still "works".

Truly horrifying.

Lazy Leeching Neighbors

[t7]

"Then his neighbors dropped-by, saw what Andrew had done, and they cancelled their telephone and cable TV services, too, many of them without having a wired broadband connection of their own. They get their service from Andrew, who added an inline amplifier and put a better antenna in his attic. Now most of Andrew's neighborhood is watching digital TV with full PVR capability, making unmetered VoIP telephone calls, and downloading data at prodigious rates thanks to shared bandwidth."

Andrew Greig should force his neighbors to contribute to the network by at least sharing their disk space for serving even more tv shows. Perhaps if the neighbors were up to the challenge (and didn't cancel their cable) they could even grab episodes of their favorite shows to share.

I'm not sure how big Andrew's pipe is, but I'm sure he won't be able to support the entire neighborhood.

I would consider setting up something similar but my neighborhood is infested with senior citizens who's VCR's are probably all blinking "12:00 PM".

I'm 2 invites away from my free iPod. [freeipods.com]

Re:Cringley article mirror at Mirrordot.org

[The_Hun]

Yeah, those good ol' websites back in the 1970'-s... :)

Shortest. Submission. Ever.

[mapmaker]

That's got to be the shortest, least informative article summary I've ever seen on Slashdot.

Which means posters have no choice but to actually RTFA before they can comment. Well done! :)

Re:Losing revenue from residential customers - not

[Pig Hogger]

The residential customers also cost them a lot of money to support,

That cost is nothing compared to the cost of having to make a profit!!!

Cannot believe he uses open source

[Mostly a lurker]

Hasn't he read any of the independent studies? Surely he must realize that the TCO would be 60% less if he used MS Windows, not to mention the vastly improved security that would give him.