Hello tcwug, I am hoping for some advice with my latest scheme. What I want to do is get broadband connection and share it with potentially 100-150 users in my townhome community. You could call it a cooperative effort to get affordable broadband. We have three units per building and all buildings are within a mile radius. Each building is wired with new C5 for phone purposes, single location on out side of building for all three units. We would like the broadband come into one building and share with other buildings via wireless. The building-to-building network would be wireless and the unit-to-unit wired. We would like to set this up like an ISP so that we could control bandwidth and restrict usage to those in the community that contribute to the cost. Could anyone give me some advice? Hardware - What kind of hardware will we need from Internet to Client? Can you recommend any particular access points or repeaters? Can you recommend a vendor for these devices? Cost? Broadband - What can we get by with? T1? Any cost estimate here? Software- Access control is an issue, as well as billing. Does anyone know of any good software, preferably open source or inexpensive that can do the trick here? I appreciate any input! Thanks everyone! Tom O'Neill tommyo at dolemite.org http://www.dolemite.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tcwug-list/attachments/20030521/f7417723/attachment.html