Had lunch last week with Bill. We talked about this project and was glad to hear about it. Sounds like it’s going well. I wonder when it’ll expand to include Tim & Gloria’s electronic cottage a block or so away:

Free Archwood WiFi currently consists of Open-Mesh minrouters on three front porches as well as in two windows, all getting bandwidth from another minirouter attached to a standard DSL router and serving as the gateway. Each minirouter cost only $29.  (Well, actually, they cost us nothing so far… we borrowed them from One Community, which is “sponsoring” our experiment in viral networking).  Total equipment cost to date: Less than $200.

Most of the nodes have been operating together for the past 48 hours or so, with zero problems or downtime…

via Callahan’s Cleveland Diary » Blog Archive » Open-Mesh wifi on my block.

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