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- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -0/+9i'm forwarding this the mayor of my city of miami beach
we have lots of sun and mami beach has a major green initiative - oboshoe, on 11/19/2008, -1/+5Now watch...
It'll turn out that WIFI is what is killing the bees. - Devrdander, on 11/19/2008, -0/+4I wouldn't trust Meraki, they've pulled some dirty tricks in the past. Look to Open-Mesh and the ROBIN project... Solar charging stations aren't anything magical anyways, they're just going to bundle one with their over priced AP and prob charge an arm and a leg for it...
- NixiePixel, on 11/19/2008, -1/+4It may not be green, but it is cool. More cities need solar-powered Wi-Fi meshes.
- sammyc53, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Yep, it was a flop. Minneapolis though, (It's parent city), has been a model City for WiFi deployment. However, it's not solar...
Minneapolis proves muni-WiFi model can work
http://tinyurl.com/6lk6ou
Testing Reveals Minneapolis Wi-Fi Network Fastest in The U.S
http://www.wi-fitechnology.com/displayarticle3081. ...
And, prices start at $14 a month, up to $34 a month (6Mbps) - Dennisisok, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2I happen to like both of these things. A convenient digg.
- asgardshill, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2This (or a technology based on it) is how Flyover Country is finally going to get a decent Internet pipe.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2That, of course, is assuming that the manufacturing of solar panels is "green"... which is certainly is not. Google it and find out for yourself just how non-green the manufacturing process is for panels.
- Riatsala, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2Hi-tech doesn't get much better than this!
- joomlajohn, on 11/19/2008, -0/+2They did, and it was an epic fail.
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/008509.html - el_jefe, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2Umm. Seriously? We have 63 solar powered WiFi aps covering about 250 acres in use at our facility right now and have been using them since 2004 because hardwired power was too expensive.
WiFi has been green for some time. - ChuqAU, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1Coming soon?
http://www.internode.on.net/news/2006/09/49.php
"Internode has blended super-fast ADSL2+ broadband with solar-powered microwave towers to deliver virtually total broadband coverage across South Australia's largest local government region.
In a five-year partnership with the far-sighted Coorong District Council, national broadband innovator Internode has built a voice and data broadband network that delivers significant economic benefits to 6000 residents and businesses in the 8800 square kilometre area south east of Adelaide." - cfisavant, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2Coming soon? Saint Louis Park, MN installed something like that over a year ago.
- duewydo, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Advertising, this is far from new or news. Although just about anything WIFI related is cool and fun for me and you. (its better than the sagging boobs story so, it could be worse.)
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2It's green cause it's a reduction of pollution via an elimination of it's dependency on pollution producing sources of energy
- waldo21, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1I actually did this for a rural community back in 2002... It was a bit of a kludge, but it worked great. We got good signal for about 10 miles. The equipment consisted of a hacked Netgear AP. I don't recall the model, but it was an easy one to modify the signal strength, and add an external antenna with a bit of soldering. To that we connected a 1 Watt bi-directional amp from FAB Corp, and a 180 degree sector antenna. (I was on the E side valley foothills, so it covered the whole town. We also used a nother netgear AP for the backhaul. It was all mounted on a 40' telescoping guy-wired pole. (only ended up extending it about 25' since the site was already on a hill)
All this was powered by a 100 watt solar panel, connected to two deep-cycle golf cart batteries. The hard part was finding adequate DC to DC converts which I finally found in an electronics surpluss catalog. - Can't recall the name of the catalog, but it is a great one. It has all kinds of cheap electronics parts, magnets etc... If somebody thinks they know the name, please post.
It was a pretty fun and challenging project. It didn't look all that great, but hey it worked great... - cplusplus, on 11/19/2008, -0/+1Well, its not so much about using solar power for that sake of the environment (green) but rather because its more convenient. Still cool.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1It is green
- KIERANMULLEN, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1Most access points are DC powered already so anyone with a little ingenuity could hook up a solar panel to their access points.
This is news? Really? Or Perhaps marketing? - inactive, on 11/19/2008, -0/+0So if everyone on Earth had a solar powered wifi router, you're saying the Earth would be less polluted?
Regardless of the fact that this won't replace anything and will only increase the use of electricity as it increases the number of routers in use... - inactive, on 11/20/2008, -0/+0So after all of this time you can't come up with a reason why cities need wifi meshes....
GOOD JOB! Welcome to fail! - nilremdrol, on 11/19/2008, -1/+0Telos has been doing this for years for the military.
http://www.gcn.com/print/27_18/46752-1.html - aryxza, on 11/19/2008, -1/+0cool techno
- raybury, on 11/19/2008, -2/+1Who wants to surf porn in the daytime?
Oh, right, all you creeps.
No, I understand: Battery backup. The same inefficient battery backup technology that means solar and wind will continue to be of marginal use, since you can't store much except with a whole lot of battery volume and cost. - dimethroxy, on 11/19/2008, -3/+0great, green brain cancer.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -3/+0Why?
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -9/+0That's not green...that's not depending on the power grid for electricity.
"Green" may be the common nomenclature but this does nothing for the "Earth's environment."
http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/blancostemrec ...
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