This morning, Mack Male and I attended a city council meeting where the Next Gen committee was presenting the results of their wifi pilot project. The agenda called for the City-Wide Wireless Internet and Wi-Fi Service – Pilot Project Internal Evaluation to be the first item at 9:30 a.m. Unfortunately they got wrapped up in [...]
My friend Andrew linked me to this news article about the City of Edmonton and their free WiFi pilot project. So far they’ve done a pilot project in several large community areas that averaged about 250 users a day. I’m extremely skeptical about those numbers considering City Hall was one of the locations. The other [...]
As part of my mesh network interests I’ve started up WirelessEdmonton.ca. This will serve as the main website and splash page for my free wifi initiative.
I am starting with Whyte Avenue, where my Internet Cafe is located. I have 20 Open-Mesh routers that need deploying. I will be going to different businesses along the avenue [...]
A few days ago my shipment of Open-Mesh routers arrived! They’re super small and really cool.
Here are a bunch of pictures of me opening them.
The setup was really simple, just like the Meraki routers. Basically you need to plug in on of the repeaters to an internet and power connection for 5 minutes so it [...]