Comments on: Meraki: DIY mesh wifi http://www.shoutingloudly.com/2007/02/05/meraki-diy-mesh-wifi/ building a healthy information ecosystem Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:10:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Meraki Madness « Certain Silence http://www.shoutingloudly.com/2007/02/05/meraki-diy-mesh-wifi/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Meraki Madness « Certain Silence Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:16:29 +0000 http://www.shoutingloudly.com/2007/02/05/meraki-diy-mesh-wifi/#comment-139 [...] intern Bill Herman (Bill’s blog title is the reverse-inspiration for the title of this one) wrote about the NY Times editorial on the Meraki mini a couple days ago. Bill’s posts at Public [...] [...] intern Bill Herman (Bill’s blog title is the reverse-inspiration for the title of this one) wrote about the NY Times editorial on the Meraki mini a couple days ago. Bill’s posts at Public [...]

]]> By: Tim Schneider http://www.shoutingloudly.com/2007/02/05/meraki-diy-mesh-wifi/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Tim Schneider Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:12:42 +0000 http://www.shoutingloudly.com/2007/02/05/meraki-diy-mesh-wifi/#comment-138 I don't really think the Meraki is a rural solution, wifi just doesn't cover the distance necessary. It's really good though for densely populated areas. There are some interesting network architecture issues here, that Meraki solves by 1) using dual radios and 2) providing regular connections to backhaul. Of course, setting up a mesh network linking to others is cool and all, but a gross violation of most ISP's Terms of Service. It's a little like FON, if you've checked them out. The NY Times article on this raises some good critiques of muni wifi coverage. What would be super sweet would be a muni network that used meraki's project to allow users to extend the muni network, and add additional bandwidth by supplementing with their home broadband connection. In time .. . I don’t really think the Meraki is a rural solution, wifi just doesn’t cover the distance necessary. It’s really good though for densely populated areas.

There are some interesting network architecture issues here, that Meraki solves by 1) using dual radios and 2) providing regular connections to backhaul. Of course, setting up a mesh network linking to others is cool and all, but a gross violation of most ISP’s Terms of Service. It’s a little like FON, if you’ve checked them out.

The NY Times article on this raises some good critiques of muni wifi coverage. What would be super sweet would be a muni network that used meraki’s project to allow users to extend the muni network, and add additional bandwidth by supplementing with their home broadband connection. In time .. .

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