Re: NEWS: Free Wi-Fi still a goer in San Fran'

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From: Roy
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:29

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Bill Z. wrote:
> John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> writes:
> 
>> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/12/free_wi_fi_san_francisco/>
>> <snip>
>>    Around the world the idea of cities providing a low-bandwidth Wi-Fi
>>    service to their residents for free has been considered, promoted,
>>    deployed and bankrupted time and time again, but that's not stopping
>>    San Franciso -- the city that still wants everyone to wear flowers in
>>    its hair, and with a mayor convinced that municipal Wi-Fi should be
>>    his legacy.
>  
> Try <http://www.newsguide.us/technology/networking/Meraki-Extends-Free-The-Net-Project-In-San-Francisco-To-Affordable-Housing-Complexes/>
> 
> It seems that no city funds are involved and that the company
> providing it intends to sell hardware/software to anyone who
> wants to create such a network.
> 
> The bad feature I found so far is described at
> <http://sf.meraki.com/faq#tech>, which claims that the first
> time you use it, you get some sort of "splash screen", which
> I guess is a web page, and that you can "click through it" to
> go to where you first intended.   If you don't have a browser
> or use a browser, it is not clear what happens.


You have to do a bit of reading to figure out this network.  The idea is 
for "volunteers" to purchase repeaters for their homes and thus extend 
the network.

Here's some more info on what it actually is

http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/03/05/meraki-rocks-the-casbah/

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