[H-GEN] ADSL routing woes

[Damian Bickhoff]

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On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:36:22PM +1000, Peter Good wrote:
> I found it myself as well, to get to a box 200m up the road I routed
> thru Melb then back again.

Maybe people will start forming wireless community networks soon, as
opposed to just talking about it.  I know as soon as I get the cash
together to buy a decent set of equipment, I'm going to try playing with
802.11b.  The idea of anything even approaching LAN speeds to people in
the same town / suburb is very attractive, especially when that would
reduce the need to lug my machines around to LAN gatherings and the
like.

On a related note, I hate the ways most ISPs do their routing.  I
understand the way ISPs are protective of their bandwidth, but it
doesn't make sense to me (especially in regional areas) that they don't
form local links.  I guess there's not really enough of a demand for
inter-ISP traffic, and dynamic load balancing.  But I guess that's why
they're in the ISP industry and I'm not. ;)

(Sorry, there's been a rant living inside my head about suboptimal
routing and lack of reduncancy and connectedness amongst regional ISPs
for a while now, I'll exorcise it somehow. :P)
-- 
damian

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