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 procrastination! [...]
So how did the free Internet access mesh network hosted by Free Australia Wireless and iBurst cope during Web Directions South 2008?
During the 3 days of the workshops, the conference and WebJam 8 we had around 450 unique users and handled 7.2 GB of traffic. One user managed 540 MB traffic on their own … which is a bit [...]
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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 [...]
