On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 06:33:18PM +1300, Richard Naylor wrote:
At 03:29 p.m. 27/12/2003 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
I don't want to sound defeatist, but I think I'll be withered and dead long before there's an affordable alternative to DSL outside the Auckland CBD.
Start tomorrow Juha. Go to Dick Smiths, buy some cat-5 cable and run a link to your neighbour. Encourage them to do the same. As the old Chinese proverb goes
"The network of a thousand nodes begins with a single link"
Inspired largely by this thread and in particular (at least for me) this post, a couple of us got together and set up this webiste and list to facilitate discussion of this kind of community network. http://www.nzwired.net/ It needs plenty of work, but then it's a wiki :-) All welcome. Thanks, Richard