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 [...]
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 [...]
For as long as I’ve had my cafe I’ve offered free wireless access to anyone who comes in. The idea is simple, if you’re here you’re probably going to eat or drink something while using the wifi. If you aren’t, then at least you’re putting a body in my window for other people to see.
Until [...]