Building a community network with Apple's Airport Extreme?
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.
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?
read more and respond »Posted 5 years ago by William R. Cousert in Wireless Networking
