There's no need to wait for the mythical City of Vancouver WiFi. Build your own WiFi mesh today with a Meraki box imported by Mike West with some help from NetEquality. Bryght in combination with the folks at Outcome3, Nitobi, Donat Group Enterprises, Communicopia, Elastic Entertainment and more daily are "unwiring" our very large extended Gastown block (Alexander to Abbott-ish initially with the goal being everywhere in Gastown eventually) of tech friendly companies. This means that anywhere you are in the mesh you will be able to use WiFi.
Raincity Studios social media maven Dave Olson explains what this means:
When considering the usage patterns (home users at night, business user by day) there is certainly abundant redundant bandwidth available and yet no reliable way to just get online without trying a bunch of SSIDs, risking cleartext password, hacking through a backdoor or other scheme.
Sure companies and individuals alike want to keep their data safe from intruders but that is really a separate issue from sharing a connection. With a little planning and transparency, businesses *should* be able to share out wi-fi "in the wild" just because it is handy and nice.
Are you in? As Boris wrote:
If you want one for personal use, for your business, for anything, you can come buy one (or several!). More details on this in the next couple of days.
Join the conversation on the FreeTheNet.ca Google Group and let the group know or contact us at Bryght and we'll put you in touch!