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Not exactly. I haven't posted anything about my Welsh Wireless
revolution (aimed squarely at the hated British Telecom) on my own web
site. The Welsh are doing fine posting the details about it on their
own. Media is beginning to catch on.
You can access www.e-fro.cd (e-fro is Welsh for Electronic Community.
The Welsh National Assembly put up 100,000 pounds for me to do the first
'proof of concept' installation in the Ogwen Valley of North Wales.)
If you really want to hear my mellifluous voice exhorting the
Welsh to go wireless, just dip into the Video subsection where they
Taped 2 of my 12 presentations which were as badly received by BT as the
speeches around Boston against the Brits were received in 1775. Damned
BT told the Parliament they could not bring Broadband to rural UK,
including Wales, until 2020, using ADSL and market forces. While I had
bragged in a pub in Wales three years ago I could connect up *every*
Welsh farmhouse to the Internet wirelessly, bypassing BT, by turning all
Welsh Pubs into Wireless ISPs. They took me up on it.
The very small picture on the top page of www.e-fro.cd of guys on a
mountain, that's us on Carnedd y Filiast (the 'Cairn of the Bitch'
mountain, named in 1220 by the Welsh people after the wife of the Welsh
King, Llellwyn the Great, for committing adultery with a Norman Lord,
whom he promptly hung, even though she was the daughter of the English
King John, 5 Years after he signed the Magna Carta. The Welsh hold long
grudges).
We are making a pair of Cisco radios work in the picture 6.5 miles to a
tower in Bangor, and thence down into the village of Bethesda, where one
bright lady who owns a Pub, heard the boast, and now wants to offer
wireless cyberpub at 1 pound an hour, and put it in her pool room, where
the lads drink beer and play after working their butts off in the slate
mines of North Wales.
The Welsh are so exited they are giving me all sort of tips on how best
to do this. Like sending me maps of the 'Semaphore Relay Stations' used
on Anglesey, Wales in the early 1800s to flash the news of approaching
enemy ships in the Irish Sea from the tip of Holyhead, all the way
across Wales to Liverpool. Semaphore stations. Perfect 802.11b radio
relay sites. Line of sight, and not too far from each other!
I've already learned that spread spectrum goes through those old castle
walls a hell of a lot better than modern buildings with metal in them!
Its going to be a gas if rural Wales is connected up Broadband before
the suburbs of London are. If that happens I might even move there. I
was damned near knighted after my first trip there. Giving them, for the
first time, hope they will all be connected, and can get prosperous by
using the net. And as an old soldier, I offered to help rebuild Offa's
Dike, built in 600AD as the border, to keep the Welsh out of Britain.
Now they need to keep the snobbish English out of Wales.
Dave Hughes
dave@oldcolo.com"
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You can find Dave's website at
http://wireless.oldcolo.com/
I have dabbled in these areas and have great respect for the folks who have pulled off serious projects. It isn't easy and the technology is the least of your problems.
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