Re: [Sheflug] Wiki links wanted

[Richard <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan

> Where did Dinnington get the money to setup a free wireless
> network? Any chance Sheffield has any good ideas like this in the
> pipeline?

It might have been partly Yorkshire Forward or other people of that 
sort.

We've had a good idea like this in the pipeline and we used to have a 
wireless network in places.  The person who was taking me for my 
Cisco CCNA Course last year used to run a wireless network at 
Stannington and at other places around Sheffield.  He was stitched up 
by the local community and by the fact that after that the money was 
withdrawn.  He gave up.  He's probably one of the more honest people 
I've come across.

I took up the extinguished torch and over the course of a few years I 
was carefully and deliberately trampled into the ground.  I/We 
decided that a move out to Dinnington to help the mining community 
that was crushed by Thatcher would be more sensible.  It was the best 
decision.  We all enjoyed working on it.  If only we were allowed to 
do that in Sheffield.  Problems to do with building or running a 
wireless network project in Sheffield included...  1/  Someone over 
in Burngreave or Pitsmoor telling us what we are going to do or not 
do.  Usually involves guns or drugs.  Someone was shot just last 
night.  2/  A business team in Chesterfield who used to come to our 
meetings stitched up the wireless proceedings.  3/  Access Space/Slug 
Bug decided that they were "in charge" and they "knew everything" and 
the local Consume Net project was something to do with this as well.  
End result was disorganised chaos.   4/  Some others but the others 
mentioned above were the real cause.

After all of this I had a quiet chat to the local police and left it 
alone.  Sometimes it's best to forget about it.  I've been trying to 
get the Google wireless person interested in Sheffield.  A single 
organisation that can offer a good wireless service at a cost of 
nothing.  But I'm not too hopeful of that working out either.


-- 
Richard

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