[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - FCC to vote on net neutrality later today.
Bob Kline
bob.kline at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 17:11:58 EST 2010
200 licensed hams. Become a ham in a day:
http://www.migunowners.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-38711.html
and
http://www.w8dc.org/
Ham nets have long used AX.25, an old
telephone company error handling approach:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX.25_Forward_Error_Correction
and have been sending data around for
at least 20 years. Today that could be
Internet protocols.
I guess the real issue is performance and
cost. I predict that Comcast will start charging
more for what we're already getting. So, in a
band for the buck way, could a ham-like wireless
approach make sense. And does it exist now.
It looks to me like one needs a ham license
first, after which systems exist. Just a guess.
Being amateur, I take it a for profit ISP could
not spring up and offer access, or a hardware-software
package to enable a user. But for starters, the
GRARA does have towers.
- -Bob
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a callsign...KD8KLW.
>
> I'm not unfamiliar with those, but I wasn't sure their model reflected
> what I was interested in trying.
>
> From what I've learned about IPv6, a meshy backbone seems very doable.
> It's even plausible that it could get public IPv6 addresses allocated
> to it, if it were likely to have enough users to successfully justify
> the allocation. (I think the going requirement is 'must have at least
> 200 users', but I'm not sure.)
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Another: http://www.echolink.org/
> > You've got to have a ham license, but
> > I don't think that is too big a hurdle.
> > Otherwise, such networks seem to be
> > well oiled operations today.
> > Alas, one snag might be Linux - some
> > of the operations seem to be windoz based.... :-(
> > -- Bob
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I was the one bringing up the idea. I presented it in front of the LUG
> >> at Casey's place around then. I recall one person being interested in
> >> getting together to discuss it, but we never wound up making a
> >> connection. I've been reading up a *lot* on IPv6 and network management
> >> in general, and it might still be doable. I wouldn't be ready to leap on
> >> it soon, though; I smell a lot more knowledge about networking tools
> >> that I need to read through before I can really figure it out.
> >>
> >> One of the key problems, though, is setting up one or two large towers.
> >> Mesh networking is useful, awesome and excellent, but there need to be a
> >> couple supernodes that represent a fast(er) travel route to another part
> >> of the network. A supernode like that Needs to have visibility to a
> >> large geographical area, which means (as a WAP) that it has needs to
> >> have the characteristics of a cell phone tower.
> >>
> >> A couple friends of mine have been trying to figure out how to set up a
> >> simple three-node relay on the south-west side of town, but the physical
> >> geography of the region gets in the way. (And there's an airport just
> >> west of Wilson Ave. that limits the height of any towers placed in
> >> convenient places on that hill.)
> >>
> >> On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 16:06 -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
> >> > There was actually talk about this
> >> > within the group - maybe a year ago.
> >> > Something like using radio relay.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > It might come to that.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Done by the city of Lafayette, LA, it is
> >> > perhaps the best Internet system on the
> >> > planet. Fiber to the home, full duplex
> >> > 50 Mbps service for $58 a month.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Yes, Verizon and AT&T sued to block
> >> > its construction. But it was built, and
> >> > can service as model to any properly
> >> > managed city.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Now lets see what Comcast does to us.
> >> > Especially if it acquires NBC.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > -- Bob
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Clay Ashby <kingpoiuy at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> > We could start our own internet! :p
> >> >
> >> > --Sent from my android.
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> > > On Dec 21, 2010 2:13 PM, "Bob Kline" <bob.kline at gmail.com>
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > The FCC has spoken. On behalf of
> >> > > monopoly provider interests that is:
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> >
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9201918/FCC_approves_compromise_Net_neutrality_rules?taxonomyId=70
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > **
> >> > > IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Communications
> >> > > Commission (FCC), in a historic vote Tuesday, approved
> >> > > network neutrality rules prohibiting broadband providers
> >> > > from blocking customer access to legal Web content, but many
> >> > > consumer groups decried the new regulations as weak and full
> >> > > of loopholes.
> >> > >
> >> > > The new rules provide fewer protections for mobile broadband
> >> > > subscribers and may lead to a fractured Internet, critics
> >> > > said. The new rules, a compromise championed by FCC Chairman
> >> > > Julius Genachowski, would bar wireline-based broadband
> >> > > providers -- but not mobile broadband providers -- from
> >> > > "unreasonable discrimination" against Web traffic, prompting
> >> > > some consumer groups to call the rules "fake" net
> >> > > neutrality.
> >> > >
> >> > > Genachowski's plan, approved after more than seven years of
> >> > > debate about whether net neutrality rules are needed, also
> >> > > contains several loopholes for broadband providers, critics
> >> > > said, including an exception for managed services separate
> >> > > from the public Internet.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > **
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Standard hack politics. Clearly monopoly
> >> > > corporate entities run the Internet now,
> >> > > and I suspect the rubes will be
> >> > > squeezed ever harder. Loopholes.
> >> > > Exceptions.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > The day mostly official marks the end of
> >> > > one Internet. Everyone will now
> >> > > have to choose which Internet they
> >> > > want to be on, and have to figure
> >> > > out just what the monopoly players
> >> > > are likely to let through. Comcast must
> >> > > be licking its chops about now, as leader
> >> > > of the forces tinkering with content and
> >> > > uses. All hopefully without anyone noticing.
> >> > > Going forward, it appears it will have a largely
> >> > > free hand, not even try to hide its actions,
> >> > > and simply say it's all legal, and of course fair.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > -- Bob
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:04 PM, John-Thomas Richards
> >> > > <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> > > > On Tue, Dec 21...
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