While over in Perth setting up the Meraki wireless mesh network for Edge of the Web (which, running through a 100MB VPN which was going over dual fibre through the University of Western Australia was amazingly fast and touted as “the best free wireless provided by any web conference yet”) I noticed a new feature [...]
Next month in November I’ll be travelling across to Perth for the Edge of the Web conference – both to see some great speakers and presentations but also to be providing the wireless mesh network hardware and support to provide conference attendees with free Internet access throughout the conference.
Stil wrote about the National Broadband Network in the recently released Federal Budget 2008 on Crickey with a follow-up post on his own blog: Rudd government delivers yesterday’s broadband.
It’s funny; just a couple of days ago when I met with David Mathews we were talking about something similar but with with the rollout of TransACT [...]
Read the story on Australian IT.
A wireless mesh network here would have helped as a redundancy mechanism – although even assuming that there was a saturation of nodes in place (and as far as I know there would be lucky to be half a dozen advertised open networks) to cover that sort of area is [...]
