David Bowles
wrote: I'm living now is so far from my local exchange (over 7KM) there is no way I could get broadband even if BT made my exchange broadband ready.
Remember: there are other ways to get high-speed access than ADSL and cable. A number of wireless networking projects are underway and more interested people are welcome at most of them. The largest project site is
Particularly if the user is happy to be severely filtered, as would be required for any pupil accessing school resources through the same network... And they'd probably need to use something with a little more "intelligence", like the Vivato stuff, as the pupils would need access to the school's resources, not just the Internet - see: http://vivato.net -----Original Message----- From: Josef Davies-Coates To: MJ Ray Cc: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com; vortex@free2air.net Sent: 5/12/03 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] ADSL speeds into school I think that ALL schools (and libraries) should act as local community wireless nodes. So long as these networks are community owned the potential benefits from such a system could be huge for everyone. Other sites to check out (aprat from the already mentioned http://www.consume.net) are http://www.free2air.org and http://www.freenetworks.org Best, Josef Davies-Coates MJ Ray wrote: probably
MJR
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