Wireless Warsitting (as opposed to wardriving)

[Gene Dascher]

> There's an entire city in CA doing exactly this. They hired a company to put
> in hotspots. Everyone in the city is entitled to free internet. It's something
> whose time is coming (only I suspect it won't be free forever and for everyone,
> probably become part of the city fees to all residents or something). I wonder
> if it's feasible to put together such a network, and use some kind of handshake
> to allow registered users in and keep others out. A group of people could team
> up for the cost of a business class landline access, and throw a bunch of
> repeaters in the area to serve the members. Might not be a bad idea as a
> business model. There now I've gone and done it. This idea is protected under
> the GPL. So there now I've protected it. ;)

Cringely talks about something like this in 2 recent articles:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040108.html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040115.html

Gene