http://blog.freesydneywireless.com SydneyFreeNet, community driven, free, wireless access all across Sydney. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:13:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NETGEAR recognises the power of Open Source and introduces its new OS based router WGR614L and the NETGEAR Open Source Router Community: The latest NETGEAR open source wireless router is the WGR614L: the open wireless router platform of choice for serious developers and newer users alike. Flexible and powerful, the WGR614L ... http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/06/29/netgear-joins-the-open-source-router-club/ Valerie Khoo blogs at SMH about Sex and the City, where the ladies are tech-conscious. If an utterly trivial movie like Sex and the City can recognise how important technology is - and how we are increasingly reliant on being connected in order to do business - isn't is a shame ... http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/06/17/you-have-wifi-right/ San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gets the point, over at San Francisco's SFGate: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that citywide wireless Internet access is slowly becoming a reality despite political infighting - and that 144,000 residents will be surfing the Web for free by the end of the year ... http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/06/14/municipal-wifi-20-community-wifi-10/ Great CUWin wiki article on how to flash a Fonera with OpenWRT using Win XP, Linux or OSX. The article is quiet lengthy, and again, shows that flashing a device is not for the faint hearted (or regular Joe on the street). That's why we need projects like Open-Mesh and CUWin ... http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/06/03/flashing-the-la-fonera-with-openwrt/ Next Sydney Mobile Monday is about WiMAX and 3G/4G, euh, next Monday. There is a WiMAX demo and a panel discussion between Mobile and WiMAX operators. There will also be an introduction to a UTS post-grad project: iWiFi: Course director Linda Leung : "The goal of the iWiFi project is to create ... http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/05/28/mobile-monday-wimax-v-3g/ Another commercial metropolitan WiFi project grinds to a halt, MetroFi in Portland. Dailywireless.org has the article: In Portland, as in other cities, Metrofi offered a $19.95/mo tier (without ads). But MetroFi’s free, ad-supported, WiFi tier set the company apart and was undoubtedly the most popular option. The latest numbers released by Metrofi ... http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/05/18/another-one-bites-the-dust/ A quick one. If you're thinking of setting up a local hotzone, a nice How-To: Set up a Wi-Fi Hotzone Using Meraki part 1 / part 2. Nice general overview, but could be a bit more in depth. (yes, we'll need to write one ourselves.)ShareThis http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/05/13/hotzone-how-to/ The city provides drinking fountains to quench our thirst.That still didn't stop anyone from opening a cafe, bar, pub,... and make money out of it. The government provides (relatively) cheap public transport, and public roads.That didn't stop anyone from providing a service of driving a car or a minibus and ... http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/05/08/nsw-gov-free-wifi-plan-shot-and-buried/ Again we're not promoting Meraki explicitly, but they do make a great point. A local airport supporting 10000+ users in the first couple of months, with 5 Merakis, installed by a third party, for 1100 USD. Read a comprehensive review of the Meraki hardware over at Practically Networked.ShareThis http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/04/11/merakis-chattanooga-airport-case-study/ BarCamp Sydney v3 has passed again. We set up a wireless network for attendees to use.  With the Internet connection handled by UNSW, so plenty of bandwidth, we set up two gateway nodes and one repeater (one Outdoor and two Mini's). Of course, we could easily manage the splashpage with ... http://blog.freesydneywireless.com/2008/04/08/faw-at-barcamp/