[wsfii-discuss] Fwd: [india-gii] wireless connectivity.. Is 802.11n the end of ethernet?

Sat Sep 29 20:29:58 UTC 2007

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 23:07 +0530, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> so what do you folks think of this.

----- Original Message ----
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
> To: india-gii at lists.cpsr.org
> 
> Anybody interested in setting up Fon (http://www.fon.com) in India?
> That's probably the simplest community mesh wifi network around, and
> it comes in a fairly cute / easy to use package for end users who want
> to turn their broadband routers into wireless mesh nodes.
>                 srs

hello ram :)

fon is a top-down comercial oriented "community building" enterprise. if
we talk _free_ information infrastructures I would avoid that kind of
attitude from the beginning. 
with the freifunk firmware and a website (wiki) in the local language
that kind of community could grow by itself, without having external
comercial attitude, imho. at least thats what happened all over germany
and in many other countries as well with civil society based
approaches .. the networks just grew by the interest of the
participants / number of users or enthusiasts. and still grow.

<rant>
why stumbling from one non-democratic situation into the next? as you
might know, google and skype invented millions into the fon company,
and .. well "they do not evil" .. 
</rant>

;) you know what I mean.

kind regards,
kloschi

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