Richmond Free WiFi Blog

Glad to hear via the Hills & Heights community blog that FiOS is coming to that area!  Since they mentioned RFW in their plug, I thought it only fair to reciprocate!  An RFW gateway hooked up to a FiOS connection would open up a lot of possibilities.  When another RFW radio “sees” a main gateway node (the unit connected to the Internet), this simply expands the network further, building a mesh-type infrastructure and allowing more and more people to jump on.

For more info, feel free to contact us if you’re interested in helping out! If you’re ready to participate, check out our “host a node” page.

Every so often we check our daily stats to see how much data is being moved across the Richmond Free Wireless network. As of this moment, we’ve had 10 users in the last day download over 1.5Gb of data. Overall, we’ve had 66 users download over 4Gb of data since we’ve established the network only a couple of months ago. Not too bad for a fledgling free wireless network that doesn’t actively market itself.
If you’re interested in checking out our stats, feel free to do so via the following pages:

• Real-time data transfer & node uptime page
• Node location map

As always, if you’d like to expand the network from this node or even set up a gateway with your connection to share throughout your neighborhood, feel free

to check out our “help expand the network” page.

For those of you connecting to our network, Meraki issued a post in their forums today regarding slowness issues:

We have been experiencing unexpected slow database response throughout the morning. Symptoms include not being able to access https://dashboard.meraki.com or seeing HTTP 500 errors while navigating through the site. We are working on tuning the database. This issue will not effect your local network unless your users are trying to access the billing portion.

FYI, we’re not using the billing software.

If anyone has any questions/concerns, please feel free to post them in our discussion forum.