[MLB-WIRELESS] Fw: [Syd-Wireless] World's Longest Wi-Fi Connection Made by The Swedish Space Corporation

[Drew]

Following this same idea, but maybe a bit more beneficial in the short 
term to us, we should look into getting some major nodes onto the VIX 
(http://www.labyrinth.net.au/vix/), as I believe we've already had an 
offer of free access. Being able to tunnel to expand the network would 
be great, and a side perk would be access to VIX content. Something for 
the committee to spearhead perhaps.

Drew

>About a month ago, I jumped into the perth chat room to bounce the idea of
>trying to get a free link between melbourne and perth using a major ISP that
>has a major point of presence in both cities... The idea is that the ISP
>would have lots of internal bandwidth, and an already existing network
>structure in operation...
>
>Unfortunatly, the perth boys just laughed it up saying "you'll never get
>anything free" and "let me know when you're in the real world" - I say their
>loss....
>
>I think we have a good chance of trying to get a major ISP to sponser us
>into doing something like this.... They can use QoS to set our data at the
>lowest possible priority (hence we get their "idle-time") on the link and
>therefore not get anywhere near commercial service, but enough for what we
>want....
>
>The main reason that the ISP should already exist in both cities would be
>that the cost to the ISP of running this VPN link over their "idle-time"
>should me almost nothing (read maybe an extra $1 in power over a year)....
>
>Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?
>
>Signed,
>Steven Haigh
>http://wireless.org.au
>(Visit https://wireless.org.au to install our Root Certificate.)
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