Sign up with Google"ICASA routinely checks local wireless highsites for excess power
ouput. ICASA is happy with your highsite as long as your power out
stays within the USA FCC guidelines of less than 100mW."
I finally got this info out of WISP in JHB. They have partnered with
the ANC in providing Adult education to black people in partnership
with Old Mutual. The projects name is ABED.
The ANC instructed ICASA to now only enforce the 100mw radiated power
limit and not get involved in trying to interpret the Telecoms Act.
So we don't even have to partner with local council , we can just
set up our Networks and peer strait into www.is.co.za peering points.
KILLER app FOR WIRELESS:
US television over the internet.
The only way that you would be able to afford a 400kbit stream, peered directly into Internet Solutions backbone, is with your own 5.8ghz backhaul antenna and 50 other people,shareing the cost.
We only need ONE ADSL connection at a residence in the USA for CNN, install an ADSL line for him and pay the monthly bill of R280 in the USA. ADSL in the USA runs at a speed of 1meg. Using PC anywhere link that remote PC into television programs that you can legally
rebroadcast. And this way you can watch CNN... (just make sure with CNN though)
Then a second dedicated ADSL line in the USA for BBC...
There is no cap on ADSL bandwidth in the USA.
Coordinate our efforts via www.yahoogroups.com so that only ONE wireless hub in SA downloads CNN, caches it on www.is.co.za server and we all then pull CNN from this local server. The Nelspruit wi-fi hub caches BBC and so on. It would be incredibly wastefull for the Cape Town wireless hub to duplicate the Nelspruit wireless hub in downloading CNN, international bandwidth is Telkom expensive.
The only way we will get an Open Source www.opensource.org community based wireless internet network going, is to get hold of a killer application:
USA television over the internet as described.
In negotiating with www.is.co.za we must get:
a) Cost of local bandwidth ( which should be very cheap)
b) Cost of international bandwidth (expensive)
In this way , if all you want to do is watch International Television, you could negotiate a bandwidth deal with www.is.co.za where you have no access to international bandwidth, only local!
1000 people paying www.is.co.za to cache CNN and 10 other stations on their server and shareing the cost of international bandwidth makes this whole concept cost efective.
(By 1000 people I mean 20 wireless hubs of 50 people each from Tzaneen to Cape Town. 3 hubs finance caching CNN, the other 3 BBC ect...)
For wireless TV implemented see:
http://www.locustworld.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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ouput. ICASA is happy with your highsite as long as your power out
stays within the USA FCC guidelines of less than 100mW."
I finally got this info out of WISP in JHB. They have partnered with
the ANC in providing Adult education to black people in partnership
with Old Mutual. The projects name is ABED.
The ANC instructed ICASA to now only enforce the 100mw radiated power
limit and not get involved in trying to interpret the Telecoms Act.
So we don't even have to partner with local council , we can just
set up our Networks and peer strait into www.is.co.za peering points.
KILLER app FOR WIRELESS:
US television over the internet.
The only way that you would be able to afford a 400kbit stream, peered directly into Internet Solutions backbone, is with your own 5.8ghz backhaul antenna and 50 other people,shareing the cost.
We only need ONE ADSL connection at a residence in the USA for CNN, install an ADSL line for him and pay the monthly bill of R280 in the USA. ADSL in the USA runs at a speed of 1meg. Using PC anywhere link that remote PC into television programs that you can legally
rebroadcast. And this way you can watch CNN... (just make sure with CNN though)
Then a second dedicated ADSL line in the USA for BBC...
There is no cap on ADSL bandwidth in the USA.
Coordinate our efforts via www.yahoogroups.com so that only ONE wireless hub in SA downloads CNN, caches it on www.is.co.za server and we all then pull CNN from this local server. The Nelspruit wi-fi hub caches BBC and so on. It would be incredibly wastefull for the Cape Town wireless hub to duplicate the Nelspruit wireless hub in downloading CNN, international bandwidth is Telkom expensive.
The only way we will get an Open Source www.opensource.org community based wireless internet network going, is to get hold of a killer application:
USA television over the internet as described.
In negotiating with www.is.co.za we must get:
a) Cost of local bandwidth ( which should be very cheap)
b) Cost of international bandwidth (expensive)
In this way , if all you want to do is watch International Television, you could negotiate a bandwidth deal with www.is.co.za where you have no access to international bandwidth, only local!
1000 people paying www.is.co.za to cache CNN and 10 other stations on their server and shareing the cost of international bandwidth makes this whole concept cost efective.
(By 1000 people I mean 20 wireless hubs of 50 people each from Tzaneen to Cape Town. 3 hubs finance caching CNN, the other 3 BBC ect...)
For wireless TV implemented see:
http://www.locustworld.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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