[Socalwifi-general] Announcing our first mesh

[Charles W. <ch...@th...>]

Hello Everyone,

Well it's been a long time coming (a year and a half), but we are now 
building out the first mesh.


*drum roll please*


We have selected El Segundo.  (Main St and Grand strip mall)

A few reasons for this exist

1) The core project team works near there and as such it's easy to meet 
up at http://havanasandwich.com/ (almost every week night)
and hack on wifi.  A lot of networking/radio talent exists in the south 
bay and we hope to tap into that. Please feel free to drop by and
hack! (Free wifi, bottomless caffeine and great sandwiches!)

2) We have a cooperative merchant (Havana Sandwich) which has installed 
DSL and an access point. We will be using that as the basis of the mesh.

3) There is a computer store in the strip mall we are targeting.  
Perhaps we can partner with them and sell net access to local residents?



Please see http://socalwifi.net/index.php/Mesh_Experiment for more 
details.  I will be fleshing that out with more detail shortly.