{"id":472,"date":"2005-11-30T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-30T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=472"},"modified":"2005-11-30T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T14:51:00","slug":"mesh-networking-in-cambridge-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Mesh networking in Cambridge UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/Photo_113005_002-780574.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/images\/Photo_113005_002-764583.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here is Rend Shakir  being interviewed by Nick Lawrence  in The Sauce bar on the inaugural day of Cambridge Matrix&#8217;s first public wireless mesh node. Could this be the start of free WiFi here in Cambridge UK?.<\/p>\n<p>The interview was for the BBC1 InsideOut  programme. Rend was, explaining what a wireless hotspot is and the advantages of using a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wireless_mesh_network\">wireless mesh network<\/a> rather than localised hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>The business model is to sell the base station to the local cafe. Users can then access local advertised links, on the homepage, for free (the base station owner getting a cut of the advertising revenue) or use it as a regular hotspot with roaming accounts available from just \u00a35.00 per Day.<\/p>\n<p>The programme is scheduled for BBC1 on 6th Feb 2006 at 7.30pm. Hopefully, by then there will be many more public nodes in Cambridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Rend Shakir being interviewed by Nick Lawrence in The Sauce bar on the inaugural day of Cambridge Matrix&#8217;s first public wireless mesh node. Could this be the start of free WiFi here in Cambridge UK?. The interview was for the BBC1 InsideOut programme. Rend was, explaining what a wireless hotspot is and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}