From cheryl at cosynsoftware.com Mon Sep 1 05:20:22 2003 From: cheryl at cosynsoftware.com (cheryl) Date: 01 Sep 2003 21:20:22 +1200 Subject: [Rooftops] questions Message-ID: <1062408022.19014.1952.camel@squiggy.cosynintra> Congratulations on the coverage you've received! We're in the planning stages of a suburban NAN here in laingholm http://www.laingholm.net.nz/commons and will pry go the pringles route. It mentioned in your news article (congrats!) that you distribute a software install kit for roofnet participants, and that you're going to be investigating some dynamic routing issues-- Is the kit just a few RPMs that sit on any linux distro? Are you logging the test results anywhere? What kind of antennae are you using? Just out of curiosity, what software are you planning on using for your dynamic routing tests? GNU Zebra? Really appreciate your collection of links on your homepage, and it would be nice to have a photo or two of your typical setup, and possibly a couple reports on various test results. Cheryl From jim at media.mit.edu Fri Sep 5 13:13:13 2003 From: jim at media.mit.edu (Jim Youll) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:13:13 -0400 Subject: [Rooftops] questions In-Reply-To: <1062408022.19014.1952.camel@squiggy.cosynintra> References: <1062408022.19014.1952.camel@squiggy.cosynintra> Message-ID: <200309052356.h85NuPY3019521@new.agentzero.com> Hi... actually a lot of the coverage you may have seen was probably not Rooftops but the Roofnet project... separate people... also at MIT, but not us! >Congratulations on the coverage you've received! > >We're in the planning stages of a suburban NAN here in >laingholm http://www.laingholm.net.nz/commons and will >pry go the pringles route. > >It mentioned in your news article (congrats!) that you >distribute a software install kit for roofnet participants, >and that you're going to be investigating some dynamic >routing issues-- > >Is the kit just a few RPMs that sit on any linux distro? >Are you logging the test results anywhere? What kind of >antennae are you using? > >Just out of curiosity, what software are you planning on >using for your dynamic routing tests? GNU Zebra? > >Really appreciate your collection of links on your homepage, >and it would be nice to have a photo or two of your typical >setup, and possibly a couple reports on various test results. > >Cheryl > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Rooftops mailing list >Rooftops at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/rooftops From haley at bostonaircast.com Wed Sep 17 09:05:18 2003 From: haley at bostonaircast.com (Tom Haley) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:05:18 -0400 Subject: [Rooftops] Commercial WiFi for FREE Thurs, 9/25 Message-ID: For those of you who haven't tried wireless Internet access yet, mark September 25 on your calendar. Hotels, airports, and caf?s across the country next Thursday will offer people free WiFi during business hours as part of Intel's "One Unwired Day." For more information, please visit http://www.intel.com/unwire/index.htm From dana at sociabledesign.com Wed Sep 24 16:42:43 2003 From: dana at sociabledesign.com (Dana Spiegel) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:42:43 -0700 Subject: [Rooftops] Re: Rooftops post from awallace@bctpartners.com requires approval In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3F7201C3.4030508@sociabledesign.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/rooftops/attachments/20030924/1c756df2/attachment.htm From awallace at bctpartners.com Wed Sep 24 12:30:57 2003 From: awallace at bctpartners.com (antwuan wallace) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:30:57 -0400 Subject: [Rooftops] request for information Message-ID: hello all- i am presetnly doing some research on wireless community networks. i was wondering if ROOFTOPS has any interaction or entered into any partnerships with the MIT Wireless Forum or MIT Roofnet? antwuan wallace, MPA Senior Research Associate BCT Partners, LLC. "Identifying Opportunities. Leveraging Technology. Creating Solutions." ------------------------------------ http://www.bctpartners.com ------------------------------------ Carriage Office Building 900 Park Avenue Plainfield, NJ 07060 908.754.9585 (Phone) 908.226.5412 (Fax) awallace at bctpartners.com (E-Mail) From jim at media.mit.edu Sat Sep 27 13:01:25 2003 From: jim at media.mit.edu (Jim Youll) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:01:25 -0400 Subject: [Rooftops] Commercial WiFi for FREE Thurs, 9/25 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <200309271741.h8RHfchN004707@new.agentzero.com> At 9:05 -0400 9/17/03, Tom Haley wrote: >For those of you who haven't tried wireless Internet access yet, mark >September 25 on your calendar. Hotels, airports, and caf?s across the >country next Thursday will offer people free WiFi during business hours as >part of Intel's "One Unwired Day." > >For more information, please visit http://www.intel.com/unwire/index.htm > Well, I happened to find myself purely by whimsy in Davis Square at Diesel, across the street from Starbuck's, with a borrowed Powerbook (not my usual Titanium G4) that could actually receive 3-bars of Wifi across the street... and then saw this note in my inbox, so thought I'd check it out. The experience was not too impressive. Setting up/signing in to the account took forever (T-Mobile's servers are always very slow - even for phone account inquiries in the middle of the night)... It dropped me several times (not signal loss - it seemed to forget that I was "signed in").. did something like five re-logins over two hours... for a while it wouldn't even accept the username/password combo as valid. The service was not particularly smooth or fast, but perfectly fine for batch e-mail in and out. I also had to make a train reservation... went home to do that with the cable modem. All things considered, maybe it's just good to be offline sometimes (?)