[wirelesstoronto-discuss] Seeking advice - hotspot in a public park

[Gabe Sawhney]

Hi Jon --
Bellevue Square is a nice little park, and it's surrounded on all sides with
houses and shops.

As far as I know, there's no way to get access to a reliable & secure power
source inside the park.  So then it'd be a matter of beaming wifi in from
one of the neighbours.

I'm going from memory here, but I think the north and west sides have denser
tree coverage.  This might mean that it'd be harder to get a strong signal
into the park from those sides.

I think the steps would be:
1) Decide which part(s) of the park need best coverage.
2) Find people whose home/shop faces the park, and who would be willing to
allow a wifi router to be attached to the exterior of their building.
3) Figure out if the line of sight from those locations would give you the
coverage you're looking for.
4) Figure out if the router host is also willing to share their bandwidth,
or if you need a separate backhaul solution.  (mesh from someplace else?
run separate dsl?)

Does that help?

Gabe


On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Jon Alexander <jon.alexander at utoronto.ca>wrote:

> Hi folks -- I'm thinking about starting a little initiative to see if
> it's feasible to put up a hotspot in Bellevue Square Park in Kensington
> Market.
>
> I haven't previously installed a wireless hotspot in a park, but some of
> you probably have, perhaps in Dufferin Grove or elsewhere.
>
> I don't want to impose on your time, but if those of you who know, would
> kindly shoot me back one or two pieces of advice on how to get started,
> I'd be grateful.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jon
>
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