Well what options are there? ive been told about >wirless but dont fully understand what hardware is >needed. Maybe some1 could give a talk about it at >the next meeting?

Hi there, best that you register your interest- someone else might be thinking the same as you, and someone else, and so on... (There are now 3 nodes- all from this list, in the Norwich area...but...not...quite...close...enough!)

http://www.consume.net/nodes

Is the place to add your interest. For general info:

http://www.consume.net/consume.html

But also check http://www.freenetworks.org/ http://www.seattlewireless.net/

and also, one of my favourite links,

http://www.redbricks.org.uk

It's a bit off topic, but it's a nice example of community connection sharing.

Consume has some mailing lists, I'm sub'd to one, but I'm a little lost in all the antennae and electronics and stuff. (Not my thing really).

Hope this helps... I'm no expert myself. It appears to involve pringles cans and oscilloscopes. Kinda cyberpunk and cool though! ;)

Ricardo