Category Archives: Business

Free WiFi in the Edmonton Journal

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 [...]

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 [...]

BarCampEdmonton Was a Success!

BarCampEdmonton was a great success this weekend. There were over 100 people in attendance and it was great to meet new people and learn about new projects and interests.
A picture of the schedule is here:

I went to

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Free Edmonton Wireless

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 [...]

Open Mesh Networks Round 2

I posted earlier about buying a Meraki Pro Wireless Repeater. So far it’s been doing pretty well sitting in the window. This last week I’ve had over 100 people access it and most of them were not in my cafe. I’d say that’s pretty good for the first router.
Because it’s doing well I decided to [...]