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

[Chad M]

Jon,

Chad from Hacklab.TO here, we're a technology collective located in
Kensington Market. There might be interest within our group to help make
this happen / to help with maintenance of the site once its up and running.
I think its a good endeavour.


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jon Alexander
<jon.alexander at utoronto.ca>wrote:

>  Thanks Gabe -- that certainly helps frame a starting approach.
>
> It may prove too much work for me right now, with other things looming, but
> I intend to at least seek out and talk the idea up with some Kensington
> stakeholders e.g. Streets are for People, KMAC, KMWG, the BIA(s), etc.
>
> J.
>
> Jon Alexander
> w.416.348.9710.x3039
> c.416.805.4332
>
>
>
> Gabe Sawhney wrote:
>
> 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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