[MLB-WIRELESS]Wireless experiments-Melb WISP

[paul van den bergen]

this is an interesting point...  if they own the OPE then that gives them some 
significant advantages with using omnis, surely.  

I can imagine the following setup.

allow the OPE (on premises equipment) to communicate not just with the ISP AP, 
but with other users omnis.  throttle the bandwidth on the wifi link to say 
500kbps and use the rest of the bandwidth for other users routed traffic.  
extend your access to the AP enourmously and lowers the required power for a 
given bw as more users come online - self limiting ultimately, but initially 
very good.

OTOH, that looks like an open adhoc wireless network, esp. if backbone access 
is by ipsec and you don't want to fuss with WEP key rotation, etc.(which 
would be trivially easy if you own the OPE, BTW)  so alt. would be to only 
accept traffic for bridging from authorised customers, eg. like key dist 
problem only now it is a MAC address DB, not a single public key.

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 01:43 pm, Tony Langdon wrote:
> > i belive all the wireless equipment remains propity of alphalink
>
> It does (I was doing a bit of reading earlier)...
>

-- 
Dr Paul van den Bergen
Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
caia.swin.edu.au
pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
IM:bulwynkl2002
would somebody get this big walking carpet out of my way?

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