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MIT Roofnet is an experimental rooftop wireless network testbed for the Grid Ad-Hoc Networking Project in development at MIT LCS's Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group. The goal of our project is to build a production-quality self-organizing network capable of providing Internet service while researching scalable routing protocols.This stuff is so cool. I think my neighborhood would be a good test bed as well. When the software gets to a point where a minor geek like me can deal with it I will see what can be done.
Finally a good (at least for the Mac) p2p client: Poisoned. Connects to FastTrack, OpenFT, and Gnutella. It's only a 0.3 release, but works great.