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On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Kai Hendry wrote:
I don't see why people in respective villages can't hook themselves up on their own initiative. I.e. have cabinets in every village and its upto the residents to string cables upto that cabinet. If they want to setup some daisy chain of wireless APs, then they should be free to do it.
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If they think overhead cables are too ugly then they can bear the cost of burying it.
Almost impossible. Too many hoops to jump through - permissions, payments, etc.
The best network environments I have been on, are ones my neighbours and I have set up. It gave a real sense of community to boot. In Romania I've heard of similar things. They have a great fibre infrastructure and it's set up by resident initiatives in several areas.
... where there is little or no regulation, and the local plod/plastic cop, building control, dartmoor national park, NIMBY, etc. isn't going to get in the way, otherwise it's a great idea...
Wireless would seem to be the answer to that, but even then, you need places to build infrastructure and I worked/ran one such project which failed and think back to Ionica for another more public one which also failed )-:
So doing something on a micro-local level - i.e. a neighbour or 2 is great, but try to go over the road ... Sadly it's just not practical - at least I don't think so. Would love to be proved wrong...
In the "community broadband" system I helped setup once upon a time, we got over 100 promises, then only 50 offered to put money, and the first cheque bounced. The company folded 6 months later, and I was left running it, and funding it on my own until BT enabled the exchange another 6 months down the line.
So I may appear a bit negative towards these sorts of schemes! Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html