Meraki seals $2 million for free wifi

Posted At : 11 January 2008 18:16 | Posted By : Duncan Loxton
Related Categories: Meraki Free The Net

Meraki announced Tuesday that they have sealed the deal on USD $2 million to help the FreeTheNet cause in San Francisco. Watch this with interest folks, it has been attempted before and failed. If they succeed the story will live on as the pioneer of free wifi in metropolitan areas.

This is only a good thing, and more. If this model can actually take off, hand held devices such as mobile phones with dual mode gsm/wifi, will be given a massive boost, and the community as a whole will be helped up the technological ladder. Not to mention that nerds everywhere in free wifi land will rejoice.

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Meraki - FreeTheNet!

Posted At : 10 January 2008 06:03 | Posted By : Duncan Loxton
Related Categories: Meraki Free The Net,Technology

Meraki? Its a great piece of wireless networking hardware by manufacturers of the same name. The company is backed by Google, and was set up off the back of a research project by the boffins at MIT.

You can't beat pedigree like that! Merki creates a wireless mesh network, meaning that the more nodes you add to the network the stronger it will become. San Francisco is fast becoming a free internet zone, with Meraki and the community starting to cover residential areas with Meraki mesh networks.

They provide a number of options, the standard set up gets you a piece of hardware, that you plugin, set up, place on a map and join to an existing network if there is already one nearby. You can set up unrestricted access for your computers, iPhone, handheld device, fridge etc, and limit the speed and usage of users of the free segment.