Hi all: As Joe mentioned, at this Wednesday's meeting we'll be giving away our first WifiDogs--Spot, Rover, Alfie, Bowser, Cujo, Duke, and TBD. If you bring a basic Linksys WRT54G, you'll get a preconfigured WifiDog to take home.
What's WifiDog? WifiDog is a "smart" hotspot. It's a wifi portal solution that runs on OpenWRT, open-source firmware for the Linksys WRT54G. WifiDog allows realtime monitoring of nodes, customizable splash pages, and good statistical reporting. Why are we doing this? Look at our network now: [https://auth.nycwireless.net/hotspots_map.php] Grey are unmonitored hotspots (at least not monitored by the auth server). We want to make the network green. If you're planning on taking us up on the offer, let me know (rob at nycwireless.net). Bring a basic WRT54G with you. Here are this week's WRT deals: * Circuit City has $30 in mailin rebates on the WRT54G, giving net price of $39.99. [http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=299891&pfp=srch1&ref=performics|( Product Link) * Radio Shack has an instant in-store rebate of $10 and a mail-in of $10, giving a net price of $49.99. [http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2104209|(Produce Link)|] PLEASE NOTE: The newest version of the Linksys (v5) doesn't run the open-source software yet. So check the first four characters of the serial number before you buy. Look for a serial number starting with CDFA or CDF0-CDF9. DO NOT get CDFB. CDFB is Bad. It'll be hard for us to make it work. Thanks, Rob Kelley NYCwireless __Meeting info__ This Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 at 7:15pm Bway.net - in new home 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 [http://nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=44] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
