[wirelesstoronto-discuss] [wirelesstoronto-news] Wireless Toronto news, summer 2009

[Dan Misener]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Gabe Sawhney <gabe at pwd.ca> wrote:

> 4) Open-mesh deployments
>
> We've been experimenting over the past year or so with the open-mesh
> networking platform (open-mesh.com).  This summer we converted to of our
> hotspots to this system, to help us get better coverage.  The results so far
> have been great: the network at Yonge-Dundas Square and at Dufferin Grove
> Park are both now way stronger than they were with the previous system.
> We're continuing to experiment with the platform -- if you're in Toronto and
> working with open-mesh, or are interested in checking it out, introduce
> yourself on the "discuss" list!
>

This is great news! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Dan, and for
the past year or so, I've been running a small mesh network at the corner of
Queen and Parliament:

http://public.meraki.com/network/Corktown<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fpublic.meraki.com%2Fnetwork%2FCorktown&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFrqEzdkBPKzwoniJOzL_rwc5Blx7JUVtg>

Right now it's running on Meraki hardware and software, but with their
recent pricing and business model changes, I've been very interested in the
open-mesh system as an alternative. I've read that it _used_ to be possible
to reflash Meraki hardware to the open-mesh system, but that this is no
longer the case.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has experience reflashing Meraki devices to
run open-mesh.

-- 
Dan Misener
dan at misener.org / +1 (416) 879-4695
http://www.danmisener.com
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