Monthly Archives: July 2008

New Open-Mesh Logo Disappoints

This morning I noticed that Open-Mesh introduced a new logo.

I certainly hope it’s a stop-gap before a better logo because this one looks like someone spent five minutes learning Photoshop while making it.
To Mike and anyone involved with Open-Mesh, I suggest you check out Worth1000. It’s an awesome site where you can get a really [...]

Free WiFi Update

I’m lazy so I’ll copy the email I sent to friends about the status of my Free WiFi project.
Hi guys,
I thought I’d start sending out updates via email for now until I get the motivation to blog them. Eventually I’d like to have a wiki of sorts for community wifi projects and the like.
Anyhoo:

I’ve got [...]

Open-Mesh Update

Open-Mesh.com is slowly but surely improving. Just recently I noticed their homepage changed slogans. It went from something like “WiFi for the developing world” to “WiFi Where You Need It”. I like the latter, myself.
New firmware updates have also happened and beta 1.21 has been released. There was a glitch upgrading to the c953 firmware [...]

Temporary Mesh WiFi

This weekend at BarCampEdmonton1 I set up a temporary WiFi network using my Open-Mesh routers. Things went relatively smoothly after I unplugged 2 of my repeaters. For some reason plugging in 1 gateway and 5 repeaters at the exact same time wouldn’t let some of the repeaters update with new SSIDs. In the end I [...]

BarCampYEG Session Videos

My videos finally uploaded to Google Video. Here’s a list of them:

Why Twitter Will Rule the World by Mack D. Male

The Evolution of Nexopia by Timo Ewalds

Edmonton WiFi and Mesh Networks by Mack D. Male and Eric W. Warnke

What Problem Does the Semantic Web Solve by ZigTag Employees

Emerging Mobile Platforms by Mark F. Bennett

dub5 Demos [...]