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Remember the internet from the ITCrowd? You could build sort of your own version with the RPi-A: You can build your own in"tra"net versus using the in"ter"net. But if you really want to be useful you might want to use a stationary satellite. But then to get world wide coverage you might need several stationary satellites. Do not tell me someone has not already done this. So you get: Getting close to home.  Even if you do not have all that fancy equipment you can still build a private intranet.  A bit dated, but still viable: In part one you will get the basic setup and a few tweaks. http://www.instructables.com/id/Your-personal-intranet-Part-1/ In part two you will get some additional tweaks. http://www.instructables.com/id/Your-personal-intranet-Part-2/ Have fun.

Not really what I had in mind... Had to stay at my brother’s house during a recent summer while the AC was being replaced. While there, he was kind enough to let me access his wifi. It was real easy. You just log in and your on-line. The neat part of it was you are blocked out of using the local area network. He uses a wireless router from that company in Cupertino, California. I wanted to have the same thing but did not want to spend one hundred plus dollars on a new router like he did. Recently I purchased a used Cisco Linksys wrt-54g from the local Goodwill store specializing in computer stuff real cheap. Knew that you could upgrade the firmware with dd-wrt, openwrt, and a host of others. In fact, I think I had installed dd-wrt. Wanted more like what my brother has. After doing some research, I found some firmware. Known as CoovaAP, it is known is what is called a Wisp (wifi inTERnet service provider. Well I wanted it for our intranet (local area full service n...

More and more people are wanting to separate their private network from the internet but still want to access both for a system or two. No problem. You can set up multihomed nics faily easily and all things being equal, no packets should go between the two. If you have 2 NIC (network Lan card) each connected to different networks: => eth0: 192.168.1.0/24 => eth1: 192.168.2.0/24 Consider above setup. Now if you want to route traffic to connected network only (eth0 and eth1) w/o setting Linux server as a router. This is generally called multi homing setup. You don't have to setup Linux box as a router to use multi homing :). Just assign as IP address to each NIC and you are done. How do I configure Linux multi homing? Just assign each interface IP address using ifconfig or use DHCP and multi homing will be turned on: # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.254 up # ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.254 up Commonly, most admin confuse the idea of multi-homing with the concept of routing or IP ...

More and more people are wanting to separate their private network from the internet but still want to access both for a system or two. No problem. You can set up multihomed nics faily easily and all things being equal, no packets should go between the two. If you have 2 NIC (network Lan card) each connected to different networks: => eth0: 192.168.1.0/24 => eth1: 192.168.2.0/24 Consider above setup. Now if you want to route traffic to connected network only (eth0 and eth1) w/o setting Linux server as a router. This is generally called multi homing setup. You don't have to setup Linux box as a router to use multi homing :). Just assign as IP address to each NIC and you are done. How do I configure Linux multi homing? Just assign each interface IP address using ifconfig or use DHCP and multi homing will be turned on: # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.254 up # ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.254 up Commonly, most admin confuse the idea of multi-homing with the concept o...

Traditionally, neighborhood intranet was called guerilla networking (not to be confused with guerilla marketing). Known people that have done this for years. My personal feeling is that you not connect it to the real internet. If you want to connect to the internet, have a separate network. All of it is easy to set up, but there is a minefield of legal issues. Caveat Emptor. http://www.ehow.com/how_2070419_start-neighborhood-intranet.html  http://www.meetdageeks.com/2012/02/your-own-intranet.html