Tim May wrote:
The rapid growth of proprietary networks (such as the one linking me to my next door neighbor) makes Digital Telephony almost unenforceable.
hehe... I did something similiar about two years ago with my friend who lived across the street... We took wires, laid them down on the street, and poured roofing tar over it, then let it dry overnight. Over the next few days, heating from the sun and cars driving over it compressed it to a barely perceptable bump. The rest of the connection was buried in plastic pipe under the lawn. We hooked up a serial line connection. It worked well for several months... tho a few minor repair jobs were needed. The connection met its fate when the street crew came thru and tore up and repaved the entire street. We never re-laid the line. (The old street was in pretty bad condition, so our "patch" wasn't very noticable... however it would have been fairly obvious on a newly paved street.) Neat trick tho. I wish it was easier to do things like that... Has anyone made any progress with networking over unliscensed radio spectrum?