[NBLUG/talk] WiFi Mesh Networking

[Robert P. Thille]

mendozae at sonoma.edu wrote:
> Talking about WiFi, I would like to know this group's opinion on the big
> controversy recently at the Sebastopol City Council regarding the issue of
> having it publicly financed and installed all over that city.
> 
> Anyone care to comment? Is free public WiFi a good thing or a bad thing
> (and I'm not referring to the tax issue here. I am strictly interested in
> the accusations that WiFi is a threat to health).

As I understand it, it's not publicly financed.  Sonic.net would put it 
in at their cost, and expect to recoup their investment/costs by 
advertising to the users via their browser.  If you login with a 
sonic.net account/password, you skip the adverts.

But I'm not that familiar with the details, so either read the city 
council resolution/contract (which should be on the city website), or 
contact Dane Jasper, CEO @ Sonic.net.  He's very accessible.

Robert


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Edward
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 12:58:58 -0700
> From: "Mitch Patenaude" <patenaude at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] BALUG Dinner: WiFi Mesh Networking (Tuesday)
> To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,
>         etc." <talk at nblug.org>
> 
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Andrew Fife <afife at untangle.com> wrote:
> 
>>  [...]
>> Meeting Details...
>>
>>   6:30pm
>>   April 20th, 2008 (Tuesday)
>>
> 
> Apple's "Time Machine"  hasn't been ported to linux, so I'm not sure how we
> can attend.  I'm assuming that you mean May 20th, 2008.
> 
>   -- Mitch
> 
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