Oh, and also for Peace on Earth, the end of taxes,
the truth about the Kennedy murder(s), and the
phone number of that cute Fed.

But barring all that...

I've been volunteered to help in a pretty worthy
cause, but I'm inexperienced in what they need.

I've hooked up single base stations aplenty for small
businesses and families, but this is much bigger.

Situation: A summer camp (with some year round usage)
in the middle of nowhere cellular wise. They've got
an internet connection and a single base unit, letting
the office staff and a kid's computer room get online.

They're a perfect candidate for the T-Mobile
"HotSpot At Home" offer. (This is a recent addition
to TM's services, announced the same week as
the ipod, so few folk heard about it. If you've
got one of their newer/compatable phones, it'll
use an 802.11 connection when available. This
works seamlessly for both incoming and outgoing
calls, and, for that matter, will work if
you're at an 802.11 spot in, say, Russia
or Pakistan.)

The camp is a specialty one halping kids with
illnesses, and a good number of the volunteer
medical staff (and everyone else, of course)
would like to be reachable without having to
give out the camp's number, wait for a runner, etc.

So.. what I'd like is a recommendation on how best
to set up, say, a half dozen APs in the camp and
have them feed back, eventually, to the "cable modem".

(they'd be inside the buildings, so weather and power
aren't big issues).

I can run the ethernet cabling, and could even do
an ethernet<-> fiber optic bridge, although I'd prefer
options for wireless hopping.

The main problem is that it's got to be something
I can pre arrange here in the city, then bring
the boxes up there, spend a day or so, and
have them work.

Note that we're not worried, at this stage,
of outside interference/leaches.

My initial gut feeling is to use a half dozen
Airport Extremes with their WDS mode, but I've
got no experience with them.

Price is a bit of a concern, but not super critical
within reason.

I can spend plenty of time in town working and preparing,
but travelling to the camp itself is a Big Deal so
I'd hope to minimize those as much as possible.

Remote maintenance of the "pull the plug, with 15 seconds,
and put it back in" will be possible. More than that
is uncertain.

Suggestions, pointers, experience notes, cheerfully
appreciated.

Thanks


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