Abstract :
Laotian farmers, without power or phone service, may soon get connected to the Internet, thanks to an international team of tech-savvy volunteers. The volunteer engineers have designed and built a bicycle-powered PC in a village that will send signals, via an IEEE 802.11b connection, to a solar-powered mountain-top relay station. The signal is then bounced to a server in the nearest town with a phone service and electricity, 11 km away, and from there to the Internet and the world. This paper describes the project and the problems encountered.
Keywords :
IEEE standards; Internet; data communication; radiocommunication; IEEE 802.11b connection; IT; Internet; Laos; bicycle-powered PC; server; solar-powered mountain-top relay station; village; Airports; Cities and towns; Computer networks; IP networks; Linux; Relays; Snow; Watches; Web and internet services; Web server;
