Really interesting NY Times piece about a company with a mesh network approach to covering cities with free wifi. Turns out that putting transmitters on light poles isn't practical, which reflects what I learned trying the free wifi in Mountain View. It's as practical as lighting a city with outdoor lights. Tends to leave big shadows in buildings. Instead, the startup, Meraki Networks, propses to create a mesh of homes that share their Internet connections.
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