How would these Internet "coop's" deal with the tech support? I would worry that regular users would constantly have all sorts of problems with spyware, viruses, cheap APs/routers and broken network configurations.
There are indeed a lot of problems with individual users. Small networks as such were generally maintained by sysadmins like teenagers/students/grads which sometime fix these config problems for a small amount of money. Plus, good tech guys were always requested by neighbours to fix problems as such, change a HDD, change a cable or a faulty plug.
It is indeed a local community type of network. Plus, in every family there is a teenager willing to step into network configurations. Teenagers, students and young professionals were those that made these networks so popular because they were demanding high quality connection and they were tech savvy. People like them are generally willing to do the hard work of learning something about setting a network IP to a router or AP.
Setting a DHCP server in your network was something that released a lot of pressure in my network. Mac addresses were also used quite often to block unauthorised devices from accessing the network. You had to call your sysadmin and send / spell over the phone your mac address.
When everything was at very beginning, during storms a lot of equipments connecting two blocks were getting burned, UTP cat 5 cables broken and required fixing.
People who started this kind of networks were to become country's first big generation of top notch dev ops who faced networks growing from 3 users connected by a BNC cable to thousands of users distributed all over a large neighbourhood.
vicpara|11 years ago
It is indeed a local community type of network. Plus, in every family there is a teenager willing to step into network configurations. Teenagers, students and young professionals were those that made these networks so popular because they were demanding high quality connection and they were tech savvy. People like them are generally willing to do the hard work of learning something about setting a network IP to a router or AP. Setting a DHCP server in your network was something that released a lot of pressure in my network. Mac addresses were also used quite often to block unauthorised devices from accessing the network. You had to call your sysadmin and send / spell over the phone your mac address.
When everything was at very beginning, during storms a lot of equipments connecting two blocks were getting burned, UTP cat 5 cables broken and required fixing. People who started this kind of networks were to become country's first big generation of top notch dev ops who faced networks growing from 3 users connected by a BNC cable to thousands of users distributed all over a large neighbourhood.
01Michael10|11 years ago