The realities of municipal Wi-Fi

Wireless Mesh Network Makes All Things Possible: Municipal Wifi provides access to 21st century education. Most would want to back up and substitute 'computer' for the phrase, 'municipal wifi'. Wireless mesh network provides access to 21st century education. Most would want to back up and substitute . . . well, holler that it is too costly. A small rural community has its' city counterpart, the neighborhood. Wireless mesh networks can be found in an apartment building, a group of homes, a neighborhood, small communities, large communities, large cities. The cost for an apartment building runs about $50 for a Meraki unit, and a shared cost for Internet access of about $10. A group of homes runs about the same. A neighborhood can run a commercial line to the center of the networked neighborhood, and lower the cost to a handful of dollars. Same for small communities. Large communities can coordinate a division of networks into chunks to optimize the cost, and so can large cities.

Well, now we've lowered the cost of municipal wireless to the ridiculous, substituting group effort in place of contracted for-profit vendors. Boy, that'll upset folks. At least our children will get a 21st century education. Send all flame messages to tompoe@fngi.net.; Posted by: tompoe Posted on: 07/17/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use