Wireless Leiden is a wireless community network in Leiden, Netherlands. Wireless community networks or wireless community projects are the largely hobbyist-led development of interlinked computer networks using wireless LAN technologies, taking advantage of the recent development of cheap, standardised 802. ... Leiden (in English also, but now rarely, Leyden) is a city and municipality in South Holland, The Netherlands. ... The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). ...
Wireless Leiden Foundation cooperates with Demon Internet, which provides free Internet access for Wireless Leiden, in order to gain experience in this area. It is for use in homes and other buildings with an external antenna, and for use with a laptop outside, in the parts of Leiden that are covered. Demon Internet is a British Internet Service Provider. ... The Internet, or simply the Net, is the publicly available worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using a standardized Internet Protocol (IP) and many other protocols. ... In biology, antenna (plural: antennae) refers to the sensing organs of several arthropods. ... Laptop with touchpad. ...
External links
Wireless Leiden Foundation (http://www.wirelessleiden.nl/english/)
Wireless Leiden Wiki (http://wiki.wirelessleiden.nl/)
Leiden's medieval name was Leithen, and it was governed until 1420 by burgraves, the representatives of the courts of Holland.
Leiden is also known as one of the places where some of the Pilgrim Fathers lived for a time in the early 17th century before their departure to the New World.
Of the numerous churches Leiden counts the chief are the Hooglandsche Kerk, or the church of St Pancras, built in the 15th century, containing the monument of Pieter Adriaanszoon van der Werff, and the Pieterskerk (church of St Peter (1315) with monuments to Scaliger, Boerhaave and other famous scholars.
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