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Public wifi access on Crete

Posted on 06/10/2011 by woodsy

Some Bristol Wireless members have just returned from a week’s holiday on Crete – Greece’s largest island. While there they visited Heraklion and Rethymno, 2 of the largest cities on the island, as well as staying in a small village … Continue reading →

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LTSP in Notts

Posted on 01/08/2011 by woodsy

This weekend the Bristol Wireless mobile LTSP suite made a trip to the Woodcraft Folk’s International Co-operation Camp in Nottinghamshire (news passim). Luckily our friend Sean was on hand to provide documentary evidence once it had been set up in … Continue reading →

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Greece: free wifi in Kozani

Posted on 26/01/2011 by woodsy

OSOR reports that the Greek non-profit organisation ‘Free Software / Open Source Software’ (aka Ellak, in Greek) granted the northern Greek Municipality of Kozani four wireless access points and a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) line of 24Mb down/1Mb up in … Continue reading →

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The Mk. II cabinet arrives

Posted on 20/08/2009 by woodsy

Some months ago Bristol Wireless were asked by Easton Community Centre to provide some new LTSP thin clients in secure cabinets, similar to those already installed in St Werburgh’s Community Centre (news passim), whilst regular readers may recall our first … Continue reading →

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First sight of Mk2 cabinets

Posted on 11/05/2009 by woodsy

Regular readers of Bristol Wireless News may recall that in early 2008 we had a series of secure cabinets designed and built for the public access internet suite at St Werburgh’s Community Centre – our base for the past 3 … Continue reading →

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Bristol’s wifi beach

Posted on 31/07/2007 by woodsy

Bristol’s latest summer attraction, the urban beach down on the Redcliffe stretch of the city docks (otherwise known as ‘Harbourside’ by the city’s bright young things), now has wifi thanks to Bristol Wireless. Rich Higgs writes: “Bails and I set … Continue reading →

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