[sf-lug] Fwd: [AlamedaW] Randy Spencer asked us to send you this post from Engadget

[jim stockford]

I think it's interesting:


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> Date: August 5, 2006 9:57:53 AM PDT
> To: alameda at alamedawireless.org
> Subject: [AlamedaW] Randy Spencer asked us to send you this post from  
> Engadget
>
> From: Engadget
> URL:  
> http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/03/meraki-mini-wifi-router-also-does- 
> mesh/
> Sent to: alameda at alamedawireless.org
> Comments: If anyone remembers those Netgear 634's that I had Wi-Fi'd  
> into each other, this is the grown up version of them.
>
> Meraki Mini WiFi router also does mesh
>
> 2006/08/03
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> Just because WiFi's like, so over doesn't mean you can't spice it up a 
> bit, say, maybe with some mesh networking? Borne of MIT Roofnet 
> project heritage and part time consultants on the OLPC (no doubt 
> regarding its mesh networking system), startup Meraki's forthcoming 
> Mini wireless router stands to make some waves (har) when it's out of 
> beta. Intended to cost a mere fifty bucks when it's finished being 
> developed, the Meraki Mini will provide not only the vanilla 802.11b/g 
> access we're all so accustomed to but will also act as a node in a 
> wireless mesh network capable of providing a viable wireless backbone, 
> pushing out the reaches of muni WiFi networks, or even starting up a 
> pirate pay-for-use Hotspot zone. Mesh-enabled WiFi rollouts are not a 
> new concept, but at $50 apiece things start to change for the 
> companies charging hundreds for their devices -- and change even more 
> when you make the hackabl  e, semi-open source WiFi mesh devices 
> available to your ever! yday con sumer.
>
> [Via GigaOM]
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