From tomorrow June 21, you can get free wifi on the Sydney Manly ferry service. The service is limited to 30 minutes or 30MB, which nowadays really isn’t that much, especially with those annoying auto-playing video ads on some news sites. The service is provided by Tomizone. You connect your device to the tomizone@sydneyferries access [...]
Mark from City of Swan in WA informs us that: City of Swan Library Services is pleased to announce the provision of a new wireless network providing free high-speed Internet access for the public. The Wired2Swan free high-speed wireless Internet allows the City of Swan Libraries to meet the already high and increasing demand for [...]
Anna from Woollahra Council lets us know about… “more free Sydney wifi – now at the Paddington and Double Bay branches of Woollahra Council Library in eastern Sydney. At Double Bay, the network reaches through most of the surrounding gardens too – it’s a beautiful spot and lots of things to help with concentration and/or [...]
Poverty manifests itself through different guises. When we think of poverty, we’d immediately recall a homeless person or a malnourished African child, a reflection of economical poverty. Social poverty is the result of lack of social capital. As per J.D. Lewandowski, “the concept of social capital refers to the networks of social trust and social [...]
In just over a week Web Directions South, the major Australian Web development conference, kicks of with 2-day workshops and a 2-day conference at the Sydney Expo in Darling Harbour. Free Australia Wireless will be meshing the conference area, so meet us there! The traditional Port80 pre-Web Directions South (night before the conference) drinks are [...]
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 at no cost to [...]
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 a business model [...]
ACMA takes notice as it publishes its Top 5 Trends (pdf) in new communications services, applications and emerging technologies to keep an eye out on for the next five years, including Mesh Networks. There’s even an honourable mention of SydneyFreeNet.
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.)
