Comments on: Meraki rolls out free WiFi throughout San Francisco

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By: MetalGuru

MetalGuru — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:47:21 +0000

I’m using their Free SF Net connection right now. It’s dfinitely OK.

It is slower than my Comcast + 54g connection but it is Free. I did a speed test a few days ago and got around 600k bps down side.

I’m going to add a mini inside and an outdoor antenna and see if the service does even better. If it does I may cancel my Comcast connection.

By: Roundup: The growing internet ad market, San Francisco’s carbon tax, Google Maps and more » VentureBeat

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:16:11 +0000

[...] Covad could save Silicon Valley municipal wireless — By focusing in on business use instead of trying to address the much broader consumer base in the region, high-speed wireless firm Covad might manage to revive the plan for municipal WiFi in Silicon Valley, which appeared to die last year. The network would serve group including local fire and police, which would in turn help pull in more grant money. More from InfoWorld. Another promising venture in the municipal wireless space is Meraki, which plans to roll out free WiFi in San Francisco, as we recently reported. [...]

By: Shun

Shun — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:12:05 +0000

Higher traffic costs? What, like Meraki can’t just set its own traffic costs? Surely, they should know what the costs are going to be, if they are thinking about entering the developing countries market.

Apparently, they do have some proprietary extensions to the 802.11 stack which allows them to bypass interference to an extent. Whether it will be enough to offset an already ultra-unwired city like San Francisco remains to be seen.

Also, I like the solar angle, but that’s so Bay Area. They’d be better off launching in Los Angeles, come to think of it. Better start building after this set of Arctic Storms comes riding down. Otherwise, it’s goodbye repeaters.

A better question would be: is there any way to set my indoor wireless router to link up with a Meraki repeater? If Meraki were able to leverage the power of the folks who already have the hardware, but are sick of paying monthly fees for service, they might be able to get this project off the ground.

By: Meraki Pushes For Free WiFi In San Francisco » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:18:57 +0000

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By: Gubatron

Gubatron — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:13:40 +0000

I wonder what fon.com thinks about this.

By: Yuri Ammosov

Yuri Ammosov — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:46:23 +0000

Developing countries typically have much higher traffic costs and much lower ad per capita markets. Not sure at all if the company breaks even. In SF, traffic costs much less but even then, for how many weeks will $20M last if everyone will start using this network to download torrents?

Is there any hard technology in this business (e.g. method of overcoming interference in saturated spectrum) or is it a pure service business?