Building Wireless Community Networks

Building Wireless Community Networks (Paperback)
by Rob Flickenger

# Paperback: 150 pages
# Publisher: O’Reilly; 1 edition (December 15, 2001)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0596002041
# ISBN-13: 978-0596002046

Book Description

In Building Wireless Community Networks, author Rob Flickenger offers a compelling case for building wireless networks on a local level: They are inexpensive, and they can be implemented and managed by the community using them, whether it’s a school, a neighborhood, or a small business. This nuts-and-bolts guide provides all the necessary information for planning a network, getting the necessary components, and understanding protocols that you need to design and implement your network. The wireless Internet infrastructure, also known as Wi-Fi, is based on the 802.11b standard. The book covers Rob’s experiences with the Sebastopol Community Network (NoCAT), a multi-tiered network the provides wireless access for O’Reilly employees and free Web browsing to anyone in the area who has a Wi-Fi card in his or her computer. He describes his experience in using 802.11b, selecting the appropriate equipment, finding antenna sites, and coping with the general problems of outdoor networking. If you want to join the grassroots effort to build freely available wireless Internet infrastructures in your community, this book is invaluable.

Topics covered: Means of delivering wireless network access (mainly Internet access) to rooms, buildings, communities, and whole geographic regions of up to a few miles in diameter. Design and placement of access points, as well as configuration of network nodes, is covered in detail, as are the legal and political aspects of building a wireless network for general community use.

About the Author
Rob Flickenger is the sysadmin for the O’Reilly Network by day, and an all-around hack almost all of the time. He enjoys fiddling around with puzzles and making machines that make electrons dance. Entertained by the usual complement of obscure British sci-fi and humour, he has endless fun trying to comprehend the Nature of Human Existance and his Place in the Universe, all while living with multiple cats and battling a fierce addiction to Northern California coffee drinks. And he really believes that “infinite free bandwidth everywhere” is a design goal, not a fantasy

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