Rob the Geek

Category: Community WiFi

  • New Meraki Indoor Announced

    Meraki have just released their latest generation of the Meraki Indoor device. This is essentially an access point which supports mesh networking and while it is “small, sleek, low-profile, with an integrated antenna” it’s also pretty pricey at US$149.

  • Untethered Wireless Mesh

    This is a straight out C&P from the ‘Free Wireless Auckland‘ blog. I’m happy for comments as to the morality (for want of a better term) of replicating blog postings between different blog sites, but I want to retain this link and figure this is a good place from which to do that. Thanks to […]

  • Archived : FreeAucklandWireless > Untethered Wireless Mesh

    This page was originally located at:  http://freeaucklandwireless.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/untethered-wireless-mesh/ and was published on: Mar 18, 2008 @ 18:06. That site has been removed from wordpress.com as of Feb 21 2014 Thanks to Simon who linked this clip in his friendfeed. It’s part 4 of a 5 part series of the closing keynote of Webdirections South 2007 so, while it’s […]

  • Archived : FreeAucklandWireless > Article in the Capital Times

    This page was originally located at:  http://freeaucklandwireless.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/article-in-the-capital-times/ and was published on: Feb 28, 2008 @ 20:16. That site has been removed from wordpress.com as of Feb 21 2014 Cheers to Neil who pointed me toward this article in the Wellington Publication ‘Capital Times’. It’s great to see these initiatives getting some air time (if you’ll excuse the […]

  • Will (Community) WiFi Work?

    Over on the Free Auckland Wireless Blog, I pose the question that, if this community WiFi project takes off, can we then expect some corporate assistance by some of the ISPs and Telecommunication companies? Will the community be given the chance to grow, or will it be shut down by service providers leaning on their […]

  • Freeing the Web

    Well today I created a Facebook Group called Free Auckland Wireless – the idea being to try and drive a community of like minded people who might like to share a little of their bandwidth for the greater good. Of course, the group has it’s own blog which you can find here and was inspired […]

  • Archived : FreeAucklandWireless > Hat tip to the Free Sydney Wireless group

    This page was originally located at:  http://freeaucklandwireless.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/hat-tip-to-the-free-sydney-wireless-group/ and was published on: Feb 21, 2008 @ 6:34. That site has been removed from wordpress.com as of Feb 21 2014 The Sydney Morning herald has this report on the group behind the Free Sydney Wireless group on Facebook which briefly covers their origins and calls out to the community […]

  • Archived : FreeAucklandWireless > Welcome the Free Auckland Wireless Blog

    This page was originally located at:  http://freeaucklandwireless.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/welcome-the-free-auckland-wireless-blog/ and was published on: Feb 21, 2008 @ 0:57. That site has been removed from wordpress.com as of Feb 21 2014 About 2 years ago we came across the Meraki equipment as part of some research we were doing and were excited by the possibilities it presented. Since that time, […]

  • Archived : FreeAucklandWireless > About

    This page was originally located at:  http://freeaucklandwireless.wordpress.com/about and was published on: Feb 21, 2008 @ 0:31. That site has been removed from wordpress.com as of Feb 21 2014 About 2 years ago we came across the Meraki equipment as part of some research we were doing and were excited by the possibilities it presented. Since that time, […]

  • Taking it to the street(s) – I’m providing an open WiFi node…

    Continuing on in the vein of community content, I’ve just started running an open wireless access point, segregated from my network and throttled to protect my cap from leechers, but open none the less. People joining the network are greeted by a splash page prior to continuing on to their content This is an experiment […]