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

[jason roks]

thanks chad. sounds great. That's exactly the neighbourhood partnerships and
initiatives WT needs to build more public networks access points.

With hacklab on board it sounds like the project is quite feasible.

Good luck!

WRT Kensington BIA: there really isn't one. afaik, the business community is
fragmented with opposing views. You could try both fronts. You might want
to talk to Brock? from Rice Bar to get some insight on the landscape of the
Market's Business co-operative efforts.

I suspect you will get better results from independent biz owners. There are
many that already have wifi and may be willing to partner such as Sublime
Cafe.

Jason
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2009/10/30 Chad M <readability at gmail.com>

> 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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>>> c.416.805.4332
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