Commentüs on: Meraki Unwires SF’s Neediest

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:21:41 +0000

A few of us in other parts of the world are discussing Mesh networking with Meraki’s and Open-Mesh at (link) Join us to exchange technical/non technical idea’s on Mesh networking! :)

If you are using a Meraki word of advice, remove the standard antenna it ships with and get a better one. You’ll get a far better range and be able to freethenet to a far greater audience than ith the standard antenna.

By: EVDO-Mobile Wireless Broad Band

EVDO-Mobile Wireless Broad Band — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:41:17 +0000

BSNL has decided to launch its Data Services on CDMA 2000 IX by using BSNL Internet Connect Card (ICC). The CDMA IX ICC will provide Internet Service @144kbps to computer users on their laptops as well as on desktops. This service will be available in all those locations wherever CDMA IX MSC based coverage is there. However, during roaming the said Internet connectivity will not work at present. The following two types of data Cards will be available for BSNL customers:

(A) Network Interface Card (NIC) : For internet speed up to 144 Kbps.

(B) EVDO Card : Internet speed up to 2.4 Mbps*

By: rumblpak

rumblpak — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:34:15 +0000

Meraki said they’re paying for the lines and have a commercial contract with Speakeasy and Covad (who allow line sharing).

By: Mark Billings

Mark Billings — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:38:47 +0000

Great - so Meraki is going to facilitate further theft of services from ISPs of people who “volunteer” to violate their connection terms of service?

By: William Waddell

William Waddell — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:28:03 +0000

It wasn’t Newsome who botched it. It was the cadre of hyper-political loonies who gum everything up. It would have been great to have Google serving up a free Wi-Fi dial tone.

Also, do the folks in these new places even have computers?

By: Nilanjan

Nilanjan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:40:38 +0000

Talkimng about Meraki (and I had ready fro GigaOM first about Meraki) and just 2 days later when I visited Bar Harbor, Maine, at the hotel we were staying which had free wifi, I conncted to it and lo and hehold - it was advertised - powered by Meraki.

So I see that Meraki is not ony limited to west coast but also seems to be in the east coast too.

But sadly, the wifi signal in our rooms was too weak for any fruitful purpose. Dont knwo how the Meraki devices are supposed to act as repeaters but in this case it as a farily weak implementation and not really effective apart from the main hotel lobby.

But nice to see its spread in usage though.

By: rumblpak

rumblpak — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:04:57 +0000

I’ve been hosting one of Meraki’s rooftop repeaters since March and found the signal works pretty well (over 800kbit/sec) most days but it’s still not fast enough to convince me to give up by cable connection. If they can make this network work well, I think Meraki could be even more distruptive than wimax in emerging markets like India where they don’t have broadband infrastructure.

Stateside, maybe they’ll get Google to sponsor free WiFi in other cities with their system. The stats on their signup page at (link) says they are near 100,000 users now, which is enough to turn some heads.