Monthly Archive for May, 2004
| Cliff Skolnick and Third Break get some ink at metroactive. Not content with just coffeehouses, Third Break will be providing free WiFi at City Hall as well as working on a full blown community network, with plans to link to nearby Bay Area communities. |
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| I’ve got a Metrix Mark I sitting on my windowsill. According to kismet, it can see 60+ networks, but there is some BSSID flipping and NO-SSID networks, so it’s hard to tell if that’s really accurate. Twenty of them are using WEP and three are using their factory settings. Surprisingly, only one of them is linksys, and the other two are default D-Links. Almost everyone is on channel 6. |
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I didn’t get a chance to write up last weeks meeting, but Glenn Fleishman was there and wrote a nice piece on WiFiNetNews, complete with pictures.
I just read on BoingBoing that Tim Pozar, Co-Founder of both BAWUG and BARWN, is now the Technical Director at EFF. Tim has been a great source for info on Part 15 rules and regulations as well as being a fun guy to hang out with at cons and network events. I know he’ll make a fine addition to the EFF, and am pleased as punch that he’s in an organization that the suits respect. I wonder if he’ll wear his Anarchist Criminal Parasite shirt to work.
Here’s a link to the Press Release
Matthew Asham from BCWireless and Duane Groth from Sydney Wireless have coded up E164.org, one of (if not) the first public ENUM DNS spaces for use by the public at large.
The system provides DNS glue between POTS numbers and VoIP systems on the Internet. It provides either 100 “free” numbers out of the unused 822 country range, or ”verified” mapping for real telephone numbers.
This allows people to dial regular telephone numbers instead of yet another “free” voip address, and have the call switched over the Internet to an IAX/SIP or H323 service (like that Asterisk box you have sitting in the closet). A person or community PBX could setup a dial plan that first tried the ENUM root for an Internet path, and fall back to a traditional PSTN route. Examples of this sort of Least Cost Routing are on our website at http://www.e164.org/config.php
This is not a VoIP gateway like Free World Dialup, calls can be Point to
Point between the caller and calling party’s system, thus the system does not introduce congestion issues like many “broadband phone” services out there today.
They are planning on adding other record support including Email and IM records along with a remote client to let people update their numbers while on the go.
So create an account and map your fn’ phone number!
https://www.e164.org/
The fn.org story lives at
http://freenetworks.org/story/2004/4/24/164241/153
The IRC channel is #e164 on irc.freenetworks.org, and of course, the
mailing list lives at
http://www.freenetworks.org/mailman/listinfo/e164-discuss
The possibilities of this system… Wow.
The meeting will be featuring Jason Levitt of Less Networks. He will tell us about the Austin Wireless City Project, and how there are more FREE Less Networks hotspots in Austin than T-Mobile hotspots
This will be a formal presentation, with a projector and Q&A.
The presentation will start at 6pm and end at 8pm.
The meeting will be held at Consolidated Works. HackNight regulars should note that this is not the MultiLocal office, and you must enter from the front door.
Consolidated Works is located at 500 Boren Avenue North, between Mercer Street and Republican Street, in the South Lake Union neighborhood.
Go here for a map and driving directions.
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