User:Arxytas/Wireless Thessaloniki

Wireless Thessaloniki, WThess in short, is an experimental wireless community network growing in the air of Thessaloniki, Greece. It is one of the first wireless networks deployed in the city. Image File history File links Wthess. ... Wireless community networks or wireless community projects are the largely hobbyist-led development of interlinked computer networks using wireless LAN technologies, taking advantage of the recent development of cheap, standardised 802. ... The White Tower The Arch of Galerius Map showing the Thessaloníki prefecture Thessaloníki (Θεσσαλονίκη) is the second-largest city of Greece and is the principal city and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia. ...

It was founded by Konstantinos Natsakis and Athanasios Kanaris on November, 2002. The primary goals of this project was twofold:

   * Development of a floppy linux distribution that would provide encryption better than WEP
   * Construction of low-cost antennas and routers based on old PCs, placed in water resist boxes in order to be placed on rooftops

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The linux floppy distribution formed, named Paladir, was named after the stone of Palantir in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, as it provided insight to other wireless routers running Paladir. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is part of the IEEE 802. ... In biology, antenna (plural: antennae) refers to the sensing organs of several arthropods. ... Image File history File links Box-antenna. ... Image File history File links Box-antenna. ... A palantír is a magical artifact from J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... Dust jacket of the 1968 UK edition The Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy story by J. R. R. Tolkien, a sequel to his earlier work, The Hobbit. ...

The first wireless link, connecting two points with distance of 4.5 km, was achieved on March 1st, 2003, in 11 MB/s.

Since then, the wthess network counts more than 20 nodes sparged on rooftops of the city. It is connected with TWMN and SWN to provide connectivity with other community networks, and it is also connected through wired network with AWMN and other wireless communities in Greece. Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network is a non-profit organization based in Athens, Greece. ...

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