[wsfii-discuss] Wireless Network for Haiti - Question

Sun Oct 7 14:28:36 UTC 2007

Greetings Pascal;

I am passing you onto the *World Summit on Free Information 
Infrastructure (WSFII)* list.  Here you will find international experts 
who have experience in what you requesting.  Also on this list there are 
many Freifunkers.  I also recommend that you look at the following book 
- Wireless Networking in the Developing World - 
http://www.wndw.net/index.html - which you can read free of charge on 
their wiki.

I am also CC'ing you to *Benoit Gregoire* the key developer for wifidog 
who should be able to help you with questions pertaining to security and 
prepaid servicing.  Although i most of the community wireless networks 
in north america as far as I know provide the service for free.

Finally, *JP* who is a memver of ogWiFi may also have some answers 
regarding security for you.

Good luck with your project.

Tracey
Ottawa-Gatineau WiFI
ogwifi.ca
http://ogwifi.blogsome.com/

PS-no need to donate a router to me/us, however, you may consider 
donating some of your routers and services to community groups in Haiti 
in exchange for information if you like!

pascalmlaurent at optonline.net wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Pascal. I live and work in the US. But I'm originally from 
> Haiti. I found your web site while perusing google looking for 
> turn-key doc on wifidog gateway/auth server. I'm working on a project 
> (using my own fund) to bring internet connectivity to home town in 
> Jeremie,Haiti. I would like to create a non-profit community wireless 
> that I hope would benefit everyone.
>
> I have setup a few linksys WRT4GL node in my home using freifunk. I 
> have setup both wifidog gateway and the auth server. Due to lack of 
> doc I can't do much. Here is what I would to do:
>
> 1) Setting up bandwidth management
> 2) Setting prepaid/postpaid  time services (to support financing the 
> project)
> 3) Secure wifidog to prevent abuse
> 4) and others
>
> For your help I will donate two WRT54GL routers to any member of your 
> organization. If you would like to get in contact with me please call 
> me at 732.991.1747.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> --Pascal
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