Cringley explores redundant borrowed WiFi
We all know Rob Cringley needs to find some new weekend hobbies to fill all that free time, but he's hit a new level of dorktitude this time: he's got a step-by-step on how he flashed three spare Linksys routers (WRT54Gs, to be exact) with the Sveasoft firmware, installed multiple external high-gain antennas on his home's facade and pointed them at neighbors' domiciles, and set himself up to go with a triple-homed borrowed-broadband WiFi network—"war living", as he calls it. Yeah Rob, now you're totally completely guaranteed one of three of your neighbors' broadband connections at the mere expense of too many man-hours and hundreds and hundreds of dollars in gear, but you'll never be without an Internet connection! Uh, unless theirs goes out too. Now if you were to figure out a way to properly trunk those three connections together, we'll be happy to give a holla.
