[SLL] Seattle to get its Click! ?

[Glenn Stone]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:29:17PM -0700, Creede Lambard wrote:
>Dang, and I just signed a lease for a house 1/4 mile north of the city 
>limits. I wonder if I can run a fiber optic cable under 145th from Las 
>Margaritas.

Oh, come on.  1/4 mile is a chip shot for a Pringles can on the end of a
hacked WRT54GL.  You just have to find the right neighbor.  :)  

I seriously contemplated firing 802.11b from the top of the Columbia Center
tower down to a facility just the backside of the Duwamish in Tukwila, but a
line of alders and the curvature of the earth got in the way... if I could
have stuck a 100' tower on the top of the lower building, I'd have been in
like Flynn, but it wasn't to be.  I looked up the specs, somebody had done
it over ten miles; eight and a half would've been a little tricky but
doable.  Five blocks should be child's play.  

A pair of WRT54GL's, a pair of Pringles can antennas (you can probably
get'em commercially if you're lazy), and the willingness to risk bricking
at least one of the routers (I dunno if it works better if you hack the
other one or not; I never got that far).  Total investment, $200, wot?  Oh,
and maybe some suitable inducement for the neighbor to share.... 

Hey, doesn't Ken live up that way?  hmmmm... :)  

Of course, the city may take a dim view of that, but hey, we're talking an
11-megabit link... if it's actually *fiber* to the doorstep, that's only ten
percent of the bitpipe.  And if the sharing customer in question has his own
appetite for ISO's and the like... who'd notice?  Besides, if you wanted to
get really fancy you could run squid, and assuming tastes were similar... 

Yaknow, I'm beginning to scare myself here... 

at this point Glenn, quitting while he's ahead...