The silly season is now well and truly over, and the manchesterwireless effort is getting back on track, with at least one meeting planned for this month. Stay tuned for details of the meeting in South Manchester next week.
WiFi coverage in the mainstream is continuing to grow [did somebody say Centrino?]. This week Radio 4 devoted a whole 30 minute feature to wireless hotspots & the community wireless phenomenon. The program involved some interesting titbits on EastServe.com [a wireless ISP based in East Manchester], WiFi on planes, trains, and beaches, and a cameo appearance from James Stevens of Consume.net.
An archive copy of the program is temporarily available at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/shoptalk/ram/shoptalk.ram
Also, on the other side of the pond, SeattleWireless.net are now branching out, with their own tv station - a great example of what is possible with community wireless networks. The station is also available on the internet, at http://tv.seattlewireless.net This months broadcast has an interview with Rob Flickenger, who literally wrote the book on "Community Wireless Networking".
News coming in from freifunk.net [a community wireless gig last month in Germany] report of the very funky looking 4G cube - "4 cm cube sporting up to 4 radios, smc type antenna connectors, a 400 Mhz mips 32Mb flash 64M ram, with power over ethernet and usb, currently running debian" - One for the future perhaps....
Posted by rob at October 2, 2003 10:35 PMSeems very interesting and makes me want to join in with you guys, what would i need to help??
p.s. email me the answer please...
p.p.s. im in the greater manchester area but not actually manchester
Posted by: Karl Swift at January 1, 2004 06:10 PM