Richmond Free WiFi Blog

We’ve received word from Meraki, our equipment provider, that they’re keeping the pricing currently set at $49 for an indoor node and $99 for an outdoor node until the end of December:

мебеликомпютри втора употребаWe’ve heard from many of you that you’d like more time to purchase hardware for your legacy network at the original prices ($49 indoor, $99 outdoor) to finish building out existing networks. Existing customers may purchase legacy devices from now until the end of the year (December 31, 2007). To place a legacy edition order, please call our sales department at +1.650.810.8500.

If you have questions and/or would like to help us grow the network, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

We’re pleased to announce banner advertising opportunities on the Richmond Free Wireless network splash page. A benefit to advertisers is that every user is required to go through our splash page providing 100% banner visibility to our users.

Businesses and individuals alike are welcome to advertise to help us:

• offset our operating expenses as well as
• allowing us to purchase more nodes and gateways to help us expand our network and

• paying for our bandwidth costs to allow us to deploy nodes and gateways in strategic locations

Feel free to check our our banner advertising page for more info!

Even if you can’t host a node, you can still show your support for RFW by posting one of the following buttons on your website or blog.

Option 1:

To display this button, copy and paste the following code into your webpage:

<a href="http://richmondfreewifi.org/">
    <img src="http://blog.richmondfreewifi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/rfw1-150-25.gif"
    alt="Richmond Free Wifi" style="border: none;"/>
</a>

Option 2:

For this button, use the following code:

<a href="http://richmondfreewifi.org/">
    <img src="http://blog.richmondfreewifi.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/rfw1-150-40.gif"
    alt="Richmond Free Wifi"  style="border: none;"/>
</a>

Feel free to use these on your own site and help us spread the word!

Looks like we have a ways to go to move beyond 15th place out of currently 22 Meraki networks. How about seeing if we can add a few more nodes/repeaters to help expand the RFW network? $50 one-time is a small price to pay to help grow our regional wireless freenet!

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.

Brenda P over at the Petersburg People’s News has generously donated one of her banner ad slots to further support our project. PBURGPN.net is the place to visit for the latest news and information related to Petersburg.

Thanks for helping out, Brenda!