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Free the Net Vancouver

2007/10/02 - 6:30pm
Bryght Office, 1 Alexander St. (gastown)

Free the Net is having a meeting at the Bryght offices for the Free the Net initiative

Organizational and visioning meeting for participants in the Free the Net Vancouver initiative. Come along to buy a node ($70), bring your expertise from similar projects, or just to find out what's going on and how you can get involved

Categories: bryght · free the net · meraki · Vancouver

Unwire your block one Meraki at a time

Roland Tanglao - September 14, 2007 - 2:29pm
Vancouver FreeTheNet.ca Mesh Network Diagram

There's no need to wait for the mythical City of Vancouver WiFi. Build your own WiFi mesh today with a Meraki box imported by Mike West with some help from NetEquality. Bryght in combination with the folks at Outcome3, Nitobi, Donat Group Enterprises, Communicopia, Elastic Entertainment and more daily are "unwiring" our very large extended Gastown block (Alexander to Abbott-ish initially with the goal being everywhere in Gastown eventually) of tech friendly companies. This means that anywhere you are in the mesh you will be able to use WiFi.

Raincity Studios social media maven Dave Olson explains what this means:

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When considering the usage patterns (home users at night, business user by day) there is certainly abundant redundant bandwidth available and yet no reliable way to just get online without trying a bunch of SSIDs, risking cleartext password, hacking through a backdoor or other scheme.

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