Richmond Free WiFi Blog

We’re happy to announce that we’ve partnered with Speakeasy, a nationwide DSL provider with access locations specifically throughout Richmond.  Speakeasy offers the following services on a number of SDSL offerings at a competitive price:

SDSL
A dedicated line with symmetrical bandwidth.
Line Speed Options: 384/384, 768/768, 1.1/1.1, 1.5/1.5
Hardware: Netopia 4652
SLA: 99.9% uptime, 80% bandwidth guarantee, 24 hour response time

RFW chose Speakeasy to be its preferred bandwidth provider for Speakeasy’s open access sharing Terms of Service agreement.  This allows RFW to effectively expand its network without violating any sharing agreements.

If you’re interested in hosting an RFW gateway with Speakeasy service, feel free to drop us a line!

Hello everyone! We continue to plug away our marketing efforts in contacting various entities that might benefit from our initiative. This time, we’ve focused on various restaurants throughout The Fan.

We’ve focused on establishments that offer breakfast and lunch menus with a bit of dinner.  Reason being, we feel the owners might see how they may benefit by offering their patrons free wireless access, particularly during these periods when many of their customers might desire to check email and/or conduct business, etc.

We’ve contacted the following restaurants:

• Buz & Neds’ Barbeque
• Couscous
• Mrs. Marshalls (specifically for the cafe, of course)
• Mulligans
• Nile
• The Robin Inn
• Six Burner
• Strawberry Street Cafe

If you have a favorite hangout, place to eat, etc., and feel they could benefit from our project, let them know about us!

The Richmond Free WiFi sample t-shirt, sticker and magnet are here! If anyone’s interested in purchasing any, check out RFW’s CafePress store. Proceeds go towards paying for the server space to host the network as well as maintain the network itself.

Help support our cause to build a community-driven wireless freenet around Richmond!

Looks like John over at Buttermilk & Molasses learned about our project which he mentioned on his blog. Thanks, John. We returned the gesture!

Exciting news! We were contacted by a reporter from Richmond.com for a possible article which would be published soon. Since none of the local media has yet written about Richmond Free WiFi, it’s extremely encouraging to be noticed. More to follow!