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Re: Meraki brings free WiFi to 100,000 San Franciscans

Guest — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:13:22 -0000

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Re: Meraki brings free WiFi to 100,000 San Franciscans

billy — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:58:36 -0000

Don't just rely on Meraki or a municipal wireless provider to freetheet, put up a couple devices around the place and share your internet with your neighbors and the greater community.If enough people do this then we'll really be able to 'freethenet' and support local community wireless!

Billy.
www.merakeye.com

Re: Meraki brings free WiFi to 100,000 San Franciscans

John — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:42:10 -0000

Actually, you would only need 20 802.11b repeaters to cover a sq. km of street intersections where line of site is better. Let's assume we increase that by 1.5 to cover every edge between those 20 nodes -- 30 boxes.

Compare that to the cost of running a cable... not to mention that 802.11N has a range of 70M and 802.11Y will go through lite concrete.

Re: Meraki brings free WiFi to 100,000 San Franciscans

Anthony Ha — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:48:21 -0000

Not to take the obvious cheap shot here, but maybe that says something about people in the Marina?

Re: Meraki brings free WiFi to 100,000 San Franciscans

Nathanial — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:25:45 -0000

This is flawed technology - how many wifi repeaters do you need to cover 2 square miles of city? Answer: 10,000.
The range of a WiFi signal is too short to make a WiFi mesh truly workable.

Re: Meraki brings free WiFi to 100,000 San Franciscans

Guest — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:34:54 -0000

Interestingly, there is not a single spot in the Marina.