Wireless Meshing Working for 60 Days Straight

No pretty photos with this post,but for everybody who's interested in WiFi meshing, Wireless Nomad's Hillcrest WiFi network has been going flat out for 60 days now, providing free WiFi for the neighborhood, and sharing DSL connections amongst neighbors.

The Wireless Nomad plan is to do this over and over again in neighborhoods across the city, and some of the projects in mind are in Kensington market, around the new Liberty Village area (where our office is) and a couple of other neighborhoods.

If you're a WiFi tech geek, and are interested in WiFi meshing in Toronto, you should probably talk to Steve- he's the main tech guy at the co-op, easy to find from the Wireless Nomad web site.

New Flyer- Check Your Mailbox!

The Toronto Wi-Fi March Meetup

\>United Wi-Fi Meetup Day

Another evening on WiFi networking!

When:
Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 7:00 PM
This is United Wi-Fi Meetup Day

Where:
Linux Caffe
326 Harbord Street
Toronto , ON M6G 3A4
416-534-2116

Wireless Nomad in Wikipedia

Someone does a Wikipedia stub on Wireless Nomad...

"Wireless Nomad is a non-profit cooperative based in Toronto, Canada whose purpose is to provide Wi-Fi wireless Internet access to Toronto residents. However, instead of using Bell Sympatico's or Rogers Cable's high-speed Internet access services to provide service to their wireless access points, they act as their own Internet Service Provider (ISP) under CRTC rules that compel large providers like Rogers and Bell to resell part of their bandwidth to smaller ISPs at a fair price."



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Nomad

Caution, May Contain Peanuts (or open source software)

At the
Internet co-op where I work, we go through dozens of these Linksys boxes (WRT-54GL's) each month, ripping out the guts, stuffing in Linux, then using them as local WiFi radios and mesh network nodes.

Suddenly, the latest batch of boxes came with this warning notice on them, as if somebody might be allergic to open-source software. Kind of funny, especially considering that the reason the box is actually useful to us is because it can run open-source software.

First Post

Hello, Dr. Chandra.