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Would it be possible to create a city-wide network with a series of linked
802.11n routers?

It appears that the major ISP's are about to switch to metered service
(charge for each gigabyte transferred).

I'd like to use 802.11n to create an alternative to the Internet. A local
Intranet for local websites and possibly for voice and video as well.

Apple's Airport Extreme can handle 50 connections... What if you were to
create groups of 25
Airport devices, each with a persistant connection with each of the
remaining 24, plus a connection to a neighboring group of 25 Airport
devices. This leaves each Airport with 25 open channels for wireless users.

Could this work?

If not, are there any low cost (< $300 each person?) alternatives that could
scale up to a large city?

On Jun 14, 10:52*pm, "William R. Cousert" <wrcous...@NOSPAMyahoo.com>
wrote:
> Would it be possible to create a city-wide network with a series of linked
> 802.11n routers?
>
> It appears that the major ISP's are about to switch to metered service
> (charge for each gigabyte transferred).
>
> I'd like to use 802.11n to create an alternative to the Internet. A local
> Intranet for local websites and possibly for voice and video as well.
>
> Apple's Airport Extreme can handle 50 connections... What if you were to
> create groups of 25
> Airport devices, each with a persistant connection with each of the
> remaining 24, plus a connection to a neighboring group of 25 Airport
> devices. This leaves each Airport with 25 open channels for wireless users..
>
> Could this work?
>
> If not, are there any low cost (< $300 each person?) alternatives that could
> scale up to a large city?

On Jun 9, 8:08 am, "William R. Cousert" <wrcous...@NOSPAMyahoo.com>
wrote:
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William R. Cousert wrote:
> Would it be possible to create a city-wide network with a series of linked
> 802.11n routers?

Not really, that's not how WiFi works. The question would be how would
you link those series of routers to each other? And the answer would be
of course, through the Internet. That basically defeats the purpose of
creating an alternative to the Internet.

However, for a few thousand bucks, Intel might be willing to sell you
its newest brainchild, WiMAX. That's basically a wide-area network based
on similar technology to WiFi, but it competes against the cellular
phone network. It's got very little chance of success when put up
against the cell network, but it might work out in a remote 3rd world
village somewhere. But even remote 3rd world villages have cell phone
service these days.

Yousuf Khan