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I live just down the road in Lawrence. We have AT&T, Knology, and a small, scrappy (disclaimer: that used to work for) community wireless startup in Lawrence Fr
by nantes 16y ago
I live just down the road in Lawrence. We have AT&T, Knology, and a small, scrappy (disclaimer: that used to work for) community wireless startup in Lawrence Freenet.
Freenet has been pushing hard to work with the City of Lawrence on a fiber project that would be very similar to what Google would like to do. Having this happen in KC, KS will, I think, only help the Lawrence project.
If I am not mistaken, KC,KS is also getting 2000 Cerner jobs sometime in the next year(s). I can imagine the presence of Google Fiber will help draw a lot more area tech companies. At least I hope so.
- westbywest 16y agoI work on mesh wifi, so I'm familiar with Freenet. You can see their (admittedly quite awesome) footprint here: https://cloudtrax.com/overview2.php?id=freenet_production https://cloudtrax.com/overview2.php?id=freenet_production Of particular interest is that the mesh admin tool / firmware they're using, which is based on OpenWRT, actually underreports the number of clients and traffic because of its size. The operators say the real figures are order(s) of magnitude larger.
- nantes 16y agoYep, it is a pretty impressive network. I had a lot of fun, particularly given the range of day to day work activities. One day I am coding web apps, the next talking with fiber contractors, the next cleaning up after a big storm. I only work on web apps these days, so I miss the days of feeling completely overwhelmed by weather, a power outage, a fiber being cut, or, especially, climbing water towers.