Friday, August 15th, 2008
We’re struggling a tiny bit with the Fringe WiFi, but it’s an amazing learning experience when working with these routers. We’re learning their limitations and how long they take to touch base, etc. etc. For example we can’t bounce a signal through the corner of a brick building without a pretty close proximity. Also encouraging [...]
Friday, August 15th, 2008
The next 10 days are the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. As part of this the Free WiFi Project (yes that’s the official name now) is attempting to cover part, if not all, of the Fringe grounds. Of course in order to broadcast wifi you need an Internet connection.
Not so simple.
The Fringe Festival is pretty tied [...]
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
An article was published in today’s Journal about the Free WiFi project I started.
An Old Strathcona cafe owner hopes to blanket the area and eventually much of the city with what’s apparently Edmonton’s first free wireless Internet network created by a private group.
Eric Warnke of Free WiFi says the group has set up at least [...]
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