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As most of you are now aware, the Wireless Nomad website and WiFi login are currently inaccessible to most people. The telephone system and e-mail system are both functioning without difficulty. DSL Internet is also working without any general problems for everyone, so if you simply plug into your…

A couple weeks ago, Steve and Ron spent the better part of a Saturday installing a beautiful new server at a new hosting facility in downtown Toronto. The server was generously donated by another Wireless Nomad member, and gratefully received as a welcome and needed upgrade to the previous hardware…

Supporting CAIP at the CRTC against Bell's "Throttling"
22 April 2008

Mr. Robert A. Morin
Secretary General
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N2


Dear Mr. Morin,

Re: An application requesting certain orders…

Monthly Meeting Tuesday April 8th!

What: Wireless Nomad Monthly Meeting!


When: Tuesday April 8th, 2008 at 7:00PM-9:00PM
Where: Linux Caffe
326 Harbord Street
Toronto ON M6G 3A4
416-534-2116

Scheduled Network Maintenance Tuesday Night

Our DSL wholesaler is doing some network maintenance on Tuesday night, so there will be some internet and wireless service disruptions.

"Due to critical network maintenance, there will be a disruption in service
on Tuesday February 12,…

Wireless Nomad Internet Service Disruption Saturday Afternoon Fixed

Hello all: A major malfunction at the data centre -this time, it's not us or the Wireless Nomad servers- took at least part of the data centre downtown offline. Thousands of computers and internet subsribers were affected,…

New Membership Database- Please Update Your Info ASAP!


The Co-op's back-end database is making a major leap forward at the end of January 2008!

This will help members keep track of their personal info, bandwidth usage, and payment history, and will make the Co-Op's daily business…

Hello, everyone!

It's been quiet over the last few weeks, mostly because Damien has been away, and mostly off-line, so unable to bother everyone with blog posts and e-mails.


New Membership Database System
The "behind the scenes" work continues, however, and the Co-op's back-end…

Wireless Nomad ISP Co-Op members run about 100 free public-access WiFi wireless locations across the city of Toronto, mostly downtown.

To find Wireless Nomad free public WiFi, take a look at the Locations section of the website at:

http://wirelessnomad.com/locations/

From…

Finally, much better a FAQ!

http://wirelessnomad.com/faq/

New Live DSL Technical Support from 9am until 9pm (From 15 March 2007 onwards)

Just a reminder: if your Internet connection is not working...

Call 1-866-270-9543 anytime between 9 o'clock in the morning and 9 o'clock at night, Monday to Saturday. Tell the person that answers the phone…

Wireless Nomad News, March 2007


Upgrades to 5 Mb Service

As many of you might have noticed over the last couple of months, Wireless Nomad's DSL circuits are being upgraded to faster 5 Mb lines, almost twice as fast as the
previous 3 Mb service. Not everyone has been switched…

Well, that was truly awful.

Thankfully, the servers are now back the way they should be.

Lots has been going on with the Wireless Nomad project over the last few weeks, from fixing the servers to having some new people helping out. What follows is a brief introduction and…

Visit

http://wirelessnomad.blogspot.com/

for service announcements and updates on the server problems.

Just a quick update on Wireless Nomad contact information so everyone can get in touch when they need to, and to make sure that any mail you send gets to the right place. Note the correct suite number is now 422.

The correct mailing address is:
422-1071 King St. W.
Toronto, ON M6K…

We're Hiring!

Wanted Immediately: Web Developer for Contract Work on WiFi Sharing Software


Who: Wireless Nomad ISP Co-Op and the Community Wireless Internet Research Project (CWIRP).
What: Develop a Web-based control panel for WiFi mesh (OLSR) connection sharing
When:…

Wireless Nomad now has an RSS feed for all of our public-access WiFi locations!

At each of these WiFi spots, co-op members have full wireless Internet access, and the rest of the neighborhood can get free WiFi web access.

LINK: http://wirelessnomad.com/locations/feed/

February 28th, 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Toronto's Fading Ways Music and Wireless Nomad Co-op are pleased to announce that the Fading Ways Share sampler series, licensed under Creative Commons, is available free on the Wireless Nomad wireless Internet network. 30 full-length songs…

Wireless Nomad Makes Now Magazine List of Tech 2005 Top 10!

Tech 2005 Top 10
Joseph Wilson's Top 10 tech events

#5: FREE WI-FI
Cities around the world have begun to reimagine Internet access as a utility rather than an upper-middle-class privilege. Philadelphia, San Francisco,…

Wednesday, December 7, 2005

Subscriber-owned high-speed and wireless Internet has arrived in Ottawa!

The Locations page has a new map showing active locations in Ottawa.

A new toll-free number is also available to get in touch:…

If you were watching CBC NewsWorld Tuesday night at eight o'clock, you might have seen the segment about wireless Internet and wardriving. It was good to see wireless Internet get some smart and positive coverage, and it was a pleasure to lend Yasir Khan (and indirectly, George Strombolopolous) a…

Toronto Co-op Develops Intriguing Business Model

"But this doesn't mean that a model can't be found that would make community network growth almost a natural occurrence. Wireless Nomad, a new Toronto group launched at the beginning of this year as a member controlled, not-for-profit…

Joseph Wilson from NOW Magazine writes:

"...Instead of waiting for the city to take the initiative, as has happened in Philadelphia or San Francisco, where plans have been announced to offer free wireless access, groups like Wireless Nomad are filling the need from the bottom up..."

The Neighbourhood Wireless project is an investigation into the use of wireless technology to legally share broadband Internet connections amongst users within a neighbourhood community. If the Internet connection can be shared amongst multiple users in an easy and effective manner while reducing…

Cory Doctorow writes:

"Wireless Nomad is a bandwidth co-op in Toronto that encourages you to share your connection over wired and wireless links..."

The Telecommunications Policy Review Panel was established by the Minister of Industry on April 11, 2005, to conduct a review of Canada

Wireless Nomad is holding an information session for those interested in developing community wireless networking in the GTA on Tuesday, Aug. 23 at our new office space.
If you're interested in

* Learning about and building wireless/ad-hoc mesh networks
* Hyper-local content…

Thanks to local Wireless Nomad members, Hillcrest Park is now a wireless Internet zone. Free high-speed WiFi wireless Internet is available to everyone using the park, 24 hours a day, every day of the week. Check your e-mail while waiting for your tennis court to be free, or surf the Internet in the…

After years of dreaming and long months of planning, Wireless Nomad is proud to announce the formation of Canada's first urban Internet co-op.

We'd like to thank our existing customers, and extend them free membership in the co-op. You too can become a Wireless Nomad just by doing business…

Wireless Nomad is a brand new concept
in local Internet access. We're building the next generation Internet,
combining high speed access at your home or place of business with a
mobile account usable anywhere on the Wireless Nomad network.

Check back regularly for the latest