Category Archives: Poor Service

Mesh WiMax at the Edmonton Fringe Festival

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 [...]

WiFi by the City of Edmonton

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 [...]

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 [...]

DreamHost is a Nightmare!

On March 5th I purchased an account with DreamHost. I’d heard good things about them and they’re a fairly large name in the world of web hosting. Unfortunately our relationship was not meant to be.
The last two months have been pretty frustrating as DreamHost was constantly having problems and my blog was extremely slow. Even [...]

Are old software contracts devaluing my degree? Part 3

The University of Alberta is supposed to be a great school of business in Canada. However I’m slowly losing faith in it. This post is a continuation of my previous posts on my poorly run Management Information Systems class.
Since the last post we have had to create a continuation of our project websites as well [...]