52 relations: Acceptable use policy, Amateur radio, Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network, Cable Internet access, Cantenna, Commotion Wireless, Community Broadband Network, Community network, Computer network, Cooperative, DD-WRT, Digital subscriber line, Directional antenna, DiY networking, Domain Name System, Electronic circuit, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Flue, Free software, Freifunk, GNU Free Documentation License, Grassroots, Guifi.net, Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, ISM band, Light-emitting diode, Link aggregation, List of wireless community networks by region, Long-range Wi-Fi, Mesh, Mesh networking, MIMO, Municipal wireless network, Neighborhood Internet service provider, Netsukuku, Ninux, Open-source model, OpenWireless.org, OpenWrt, Optimized Link State Routing Protocol, Packet radio, People's Open Network, Piggybacking (Internet access), Pringles, RONJA, South Africa, Terms of service, Wi-Fi, Wireless Internet service provider, Wireless mesh network, ..., Wireless security, Wireless user group. Expand index (2 more) »
Acceptable use policy
An acceptable use policy (AUP), acceptable usage policy or fair use policy, is a set of rules applied by the owner, creator or administrator of a network, website, or service, that restrict the ways in which the network, website or system may be used and sets guidelines as to how it should be used.
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Amateur radio
Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, describes the use of radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communication.
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Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
Started in 2002 in Athens Greece, Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) is a grassroots wireless community, taking advantage of new, state of the art wireless technologies, to connect people and services.
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Cable Internet access
In telecommunications, cable Internet access, shortened to cable Internet, is a form of broadband Internet access which uses the same infrastructure as a cable television.
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Cantenna
A cantenna (a portmanteau blending the words can and antenna) is a homemade directional waveguide antenna, made out of an open-ended metal can.
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Commotion Wireless
Commotion Wireless is an open-source wireless mesh network for electronic communication.
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Community Broadband Network
The Community Broadband Network (CBN) is a British social enterprise which supports and develops community-led broadband initiatives.
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Community network
Community network is the use of networking technologies by, and for, a local community.
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Computer network
A computer network, or data network, is a digital telecommunications network which allows nodes to share resources.
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Cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise".
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DD-WRT
DD-WRT is Linux-based firmware for wireless routers and access points.
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Digital subscriber line
Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines.
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Directional antenna
A directional antenna or beam antenna is an antenna which radiates or receives greater power in specific directions allowing increased performance and reduced interference from unwanted sources.
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DiY networking
DIY networking is an umbrella term for different types of grassroots networking, such as wireless community network, mesh network, ad-hoc network, stressing on the possibility that Wireless technology offers to create "offline" or "off-the-cloud" local area networks (LAN), which can operate outside the Internet.
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Domain Name System
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network.
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Electronic circuit
An electronic circuit is composed of individual electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, capacitors, inductors and diodes, connected by conductive wires or traces through which electric current can flow.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California.
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Flue
A flue is a duct, pipe, or opening in a chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace, water heater, boiler, or generator to the outdoors.
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Free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.
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Freifunk
Freifunk (German for: "free radio") is a non-commercial open grassroots initiative to support free computer networks in the German region.
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GNU Free Documentation License
The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU Project.
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Grassroots
A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a left-wing political movement) is one which uses the people in a given district, region, or community as the basis for a political or economic movement.
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Guifi.net
Guifi.net is a free, open and neutral, mostly wireless telecommunications community network, with over 33,000 active nodes and about 46,000 km of wireless links (as of April 2017).
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Independent Communications Authority of South Africa
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) is an independent regulatory body of the South African government, established in 2000 by the ICASA Act to regulate both the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors in the public interest.
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ISM band
The industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) radio bands are radio bands (portions of the radio spectrum) reserved internationally for the use of radio frequency (RF) energy for industrial, scientific and medical purposes other than telecommunications.
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Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.
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Link aggregation
In computer networking, the term link aggregation applies to various methods of combining (aggregating) multiple network connections in parallel in order to increase throughput beyond what a single connection could sustain, and to provide redundancy in case one of the links should fail.
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List of wireless community networks by region
Some wireless community network projects are:;Community networks by region.
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Long-range Wi-Fi
Long-range Wi-Fi is used for low-cost, unregulated point-to-point computer network connections, as an alternative to other fixed wireless, cellular networks or satellite Internet access.
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Mesh
A mesh is a barrier made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible or ductile materials.
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Mesh networking
A mesh network is a local network topology in which the infrastructure nodes (i.e. bridges, switches and other infrastructure devices) connect directly, dynamically and non-hierarchically to as many other nodes as possible and cooperate with one another to efficiently route data from/to clients.
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MIMO
In radio, multiple-input and multiple-output, or MIMO (pronounced or), is a method for multiplying the capacity of a radio link using multiple transmit and receive antennas to exploit multipath propagation.
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Municipal wireless network
Municipal wireless network (Municipal Wi-Fi, Muni Wi-Fi or Muni-Fi) is a citywide wireless network.
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Neighborhood Internet service provider
A neighborhood internet service provider (NISP) is a small scale broadband internet service provider targeted at a single subdivision or neighborhood.
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Netsukuku
Netsukuku is the name of an experimental peer-to-peer routing system, developed by the in 2005, created to build up a distributed network, anonymous and censorship-free, fully independent but not necessarily separated from the Internet, without the support of any server, ISP and no central authority.
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Ninux
Ninux.org is a Wireless Network Community in Italy, a free, open and experimental computer network.
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Open-source model
The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.
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OpenWireless.org
The Open Wireless Movement hosted at OpenWireless.org is an Internet activism project which seeks to increase Internet access by encouraging people and organizations to configure or install software on their own wireless router to offer a separate public guest network or to make a single public wireless access point.
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OpenWrt
OpenWrt is an open source project for embedded operating system based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic.
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Optimized Link State Routing Protocol
The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) is an IP routing protocol optimized for mobile ad hoc networks, which can also be used on other wireless ad hoc networks.
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Packet radio
Packet radio is a form of packet switching technology used to transmit digital data via wireless communications.
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People's Open Network
People's Open Network is a community wireless mesh network being built by a local volunteer group, Sudo Mesh, based in Oakland, California.
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Piggybacking (Internet access)
Piggybacking on Internet access is the practice of establishing a wireless Internet connection by using another subscriber's wireless Internet access service without the subscriber's explicit permission or knowledge.
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Pringles
Pringles is an American brand of potato and wheat-based stackable snack chips owned by Kellogg's.
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RONJA
RONJA (Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access) is a free-space optical communication system originating in the Czech Republic, developed by Karel Kulhavý of Twibright Labs and released in 2001.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Terms of service
Terms of service (also known as terms of use and terms and conditions, commonly abbreviated as TOS or ToS and ToU) are rules by which one must agree to abide in order to use a service.
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Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or WiFi is technology for radio wireless local area networking of devices based on the IEEE 802.11 standards.
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Wireless Internet service provider
A wireless Internet service provider (WISP) is an Internet service provider with a network based on wireless networking.
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Wireless mesh network
A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communications network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology.
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Wireless security
Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers using wireless networks.
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Wireless user group
A wireless user group (WUG) is a wireless community network run by enthusiasts.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_community_network