internet outages

[Eric Butler]

If you are interested in network redundancy, why not put up a
seattlewireless node? I realize that the concept of a community wireless
network is almost entirely foreign on this list, but I have been told
that they can be used to provide you with alternate routes to the
internet, in the event of an emergency or outage.

 - Eric

Todd Boyle wrote:
> Hundreds of thousands of people emerge from the
> storms with heightened awareness of internet, and
> communications in general.
> 
> The amateur radio people have always captured the
> public imagination with emergency communications.
> 
> Do you think any company who offered a self-configuring
> wireless node with a UPS under it, might find some
> customers now?  The physical node could be a utility box
> on a mast with a marine car battery on the ground.
> It could be marketed through community associations or
> local government, or other ways of getting some critical mass
> in a neighborhood.
> 
> Geeks tend to be either unaware or have undeveloped concepts
> about these organizations.   Many of them have been doing
> various degrees of emergency preparedness activities anyway.
> 
> And the node itself may be more salable to nontechnical
> users if it comes with some minimal application interface
> for the laptop, etc.
> 
> Of course the cellphone people kept their stuff online... but
> a lot of people are not looking for "civil defense" police stuff.
> We are looking for continuity in Internet access, and this
> should be constructed as an edge network to enable
> verizon/comcast users to share whatever connections
> we have, with the dark areas of the city.
> 
> Todd
> 
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