Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

[Josh Smith <juicewvu () gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Ryan Wilkins <ryan () deadfrog net> wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>
> > ---- Original Message -----
> > > What do you do when you get home to put it back on the air -- let's
> > > say email as a base service, since it is -- do you have the gear laying around,
> > > and how long would it take?
> >
> > Focus on this part, BTW, folks; let's ignore the politics behind the
> > shutdown.  :-)
>
> So if I get what you're saying, I could have something operational from scratch in a few hours.  I've got a variety 
> of Cisco routers and switches, Linux and Mac OS X boxes in various shapes and sizes, and a five CPE + one AP 5 GHz 
> Mikrotik RouterOS-based radio system, 802.11b/g wireless AP, 800' of Cat 5e cable, connectors, and crimpers.  The 
> radios, if well placed, could allow me to connect up several strategic locations, or perhaps use them to connect to 
> other sources of Internet access, if available.  If it really came down to it, I could probably gather enough 
> satellite communications gear from the office to allow me to stand up satellite Internet to someone.  Of course, the 
> trick would be to talk to that "someone" to coordinate connectivity over the satellite which may be hard to do given 
> the communications outage you described.  I wouldn't be so worried about transmitting to the satellite, in this case 
> I'd just transmit without authorization, but someone needs to be receiving my transmission and vice versa for this to 
> be useful.  At a minimum, I could enable communications between my neighbors.
>
> Regards,
> Ryan Wilkins

I agree that setting up "local" connectivity between the folks in my
neighborhood wouldn't be too much of a challenge.  Getting anything
much beyond that up and running would be a stretch.

-- 
Josh Smith
KD8HRX
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