Tim: >> It sounds like you're keen, so you're going to be the first one to >> invest time, effort and money. If you're not willing, it's already dead >> in the water. You'll have to convince your town to put in the >> equipment, even if they don't have to pay for doing so. Then you'll >> have to start generating interest. You'll get a few friends involved, >> and some will go away after a little while. You'll get a few strangers >> involved, and you'll wish you'd never met them. And somewhere along the >> line you'll have to fight off someone who wants to take over and screw >> it all up. Bill Davidsen: > You need the same approval from the town as any other low power wireless > router, which is to say NONE. You can buy one of these, put the antenna > on your roof, and no one has a right to tell you no (unless you cause > interference). >From what the original poster was talking about, he's wanting to create a community, and that'll involve more than one transmission point. He'll need to get others on-board, to do that. If he's trying to do something more official for his community, he'll want to get whatever officials are on-board. It's not so much a legal transmission requirement issue, but if you want bolt some gadget to your town hall or local radio station mast, you're going to have to convince them there's a benefit in it for them, too. > I don't know what level of access control this has, but I doubt that > anyone can "take it over" in any case. They might create a competing > network, but the network which was there first can probably complain > about interference if someone else deliberately does so. If you're going to be anything other than a one-man-band you will need the co-operation of others. Even if you do intent to do it all yourself, you still may have to contend with someone else using all the bandwidth, setting up transmitters on the same channels that block yours, etc. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
