[OpenWireless Tech] Hello World

[Gj]

Hi Todd

A parallel to WNDW for citywide setups is a great idea and one I would be happy to devote some time towards the Xmas.

Guy

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On 1 Nov 2012, at 14:05, Todd Freeman <todd at chiwifi.net> wrote:

> 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 ? 
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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 ?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Todd Freeman <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.
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>>> On 11/01/2012 04:07 AM, Guy Jarvis wrote:
>>>> testing please ignore 
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