Most of the Mesh network activity was previously confined to SF. I think there was some activity in North Oakland 2-3 years back. If I recall correctly, the cells have to be within half a mile or a third of a mile of each other.... pls verify, I'm sure the range has increased gradually. And I think the min cost of a local neighborhood transmitter and antennae was between $500 and $1000 a few years ago. I hope that pricing is better now. The problem, I think , is that the areas most in need of this have fewer and less successful neighborhood associations and fewer households that could afford to setup mesh nodes. That's unfortunate since this could provide really inexpensive internet access for everyone. I am sure "Business Improvement Districts" could be involved, but there are few of them operating in East and West Oakland. We'd need a big grant to cover those areas -- or a lot of neighborhood organizing. And we'd have to plan for some of the equipment being stolen. As an example, the new library at 81st Ave, where we held an event earlier this year, had many of its computers stolen a few weeks after it opened. But I don't want to be too negative here. I would definitely support this effort. On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Eddie Tejeda <eddie(a)codeforamerica.org>wrote;wrote: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenOakland" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to openoakland+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to openoakland(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/openoakland/CAGOPvtFSs8JtEGTapLhZfmK%3DxZ… . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.