[manchesterwireless] Info

[Ewan Leith]

i'm alive, though like most other people work is a bit of a nightmare at 
the moment. rob is off studying in edinburgh, his manchesterwireless.net 
email address should work now though it was broken for a while. if it 
doesn't, i can send it to anyone off-list

unfortunately (or fortunately depending how you look), the world of £15 
a month adsl has pretty much killed off a wifi network in manchester, 
since adsl is on the whole far superior to what wireless can currently 
provide. without the groundswell of need for cheap reliable broadband, 
the rest of the stuff like open access points, community hosting, etc, 
really can't survive.

hopefully with wimax coming along at a rapid pace within a year or 18 
months there will be wireless access across the city at 5.8Ghz (the 
frequency currently used for stuff like tv outside broadcasts), but 
it'll be licenced and managed so unless someone can convince the council 
to fund it, you'll be paying your normal isp type rates to a company 
like www.libera.co.uk

I've seen eastserve has gotten more funding for wireless in east 
manchester for anyone who lives over that way, you can visit them at 
www.eastserve.com

Ewan

Andy Gauton wrote:
> Nice to hear from you again Harry :) Slowly but surely the troops are
> coming back. I know the work getting on top feeling, last year was a
> diffiult one!
> 
> Is Rob Kyle still around virtually? I believe he's moved away from
> Manchester. My contact details for him no longer seem to be valid.
> 
> Andy :)
> 
> On Sun, July 3, 2005 2:24, Harry Moyes said:
> 
>>On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 18:18 +0100, Andy Gauton wrote:
>>
>>>I think it has :(  Had a few people contact me off the list asking what
>>>has happened. Wish I knew? :(
>>>
>>>Andy :)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>One thing that happened is my main systems disc died a couple of months
>>back, and with it my ultra tuned spam filter set up. With pressure from
>>work being what it is, I've not had the energy to recreate it, and my
>>average of 30000 spam messages a day a means that without those filters
>>I'm as good as netless.
>>
>>Its looking more hopeful now I've rebuilt the system, and my filtering
>>is back to good enough that I can at least follow this conversation.
>>
>>I've also cleared the spam backlog on pointless.net, so the list should
>>be flowing properly again.
>>
>>I'll try and catch up with the backlog of conversation I've missed.
>>
>>Sorry to Sepan Svatek, whose postings were stalled amid the spam on
>>pointless. I guess they hit the list yesterday, weeks after they were
>>posted.
>>
>>Workload at work has gone from mad to worse, so my ability to contribute
>>much is limited at present.
>>
>>Darren or Ewan listening?
>>
>>Harry
>>
>>
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