[OpenWireless Tech] Hello World

[Todd Freeman]

That is one thing I have been wondering about a lot, why go with
unencrypted wireless when there are so many wireless services already in
existence, using open source software,  which allow for centralized user
database ?

It just seems that would be more robust, for instance, currently there
is not really a community built around this (openwireless) as far as I
can tell, it feels like it was created in response to the technical
hurdles of mesh type networks (and the overhead). Thus while technically
simple (for a small number of routers) there is no real communication
between the hosts, and no incentive to communicate, which will lead to
stagnation (if that has not already happened).

I think there are a lot of people interested in this sort of thing (city
wide wifi has been thrown around a lot lately) who have either the
equipment or finance to help a project like this, but not the skill.

There are already opensource projects in the same vein, such as
openwisp, but the documentation is mostly in italian. So I guess my
question here is, is there anyone on this list who would like to help me
develop a guide for setting up wifi on a city wide scale, that we can
then propose to cities who are interested ?

I already have the infrastructure in place and running (I standardized
on ubiquity hardware), I have only been having difficulty setting up the
auth system.


On 11/01/2012 08:45 AM, Natanael wrote:
> It was a bit more active for about a month, a year ago. Let's hope it
> wakes up again!
>
> By the way, now that Android has support for automatic WiFi Direct
> service announcement/detection/connection (based on UPNP and/or
> Bonjour), we could build something on top of that. AFAIK all it takes
> is a firmware upgrade for systems with ordinary recent WiFi chips to
> use it, so I imagine routers should be able to support it as long as
> the driver makers added support for it.
>
> IMHO that would be the "least messy" solution. A router could simply
> announce it's support for the "OpenWireless hotspot protocol" to other
> WiFi Direct devices.
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Todd Freeman <todd at chiwifi.net
> <mailto:todd at chiwifi.net>> wrote:
>
>     I am just glad I am not the only person on this list, the site is
>     pretty sparse on community info.
>
>
>     On 11/01/2012 04:07 AM, Guy Jarvis wrote:
>>     testing please ignore
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