Monday, May 10, 2004

CUWiN The CUWiN [Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network] project wants to allow self-forming, noncentralized, mesh-based Wi-Fi networks using standard, old PCs with no configuration. Take a bunch of 486s and you can create your own functioning WiFi mesh network.The old paradigm of top-down network provisioning is so fragile that just one garage-based genius — surrounded by an open source community — could implode it. Exciting. [via joho] 8:16:52 AM    comment []