Broadband Shuffle

[Tom Guilderson]

John Chambers wrote:
> 
> OTOH, I wonder if the people outside the cities  could  get  the  act
> together and set up their own wireless networks. All it would take is
> one tie-in to the Internet to give everyone in your area access. This
> is how rural cooperatives have happened in the past.
> 

That is exactly what some people in my wife's home town of Cork Ireland
are trying to do:

	http://cork.irishwan.org/

There are also efforts in other Irish cities - because consumer 
broadband is not available in any affordable form. Also even the
cities outside of Dublin are not very large. I know that 
some people from the Cork LUG are involved with this effort. 
Quite interesting - next time I am over I will try to find
out more info and see if I can get on the WAN to see how well
it works. Cool!

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Tom Guilderson
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