I recently took delivery of a Meraki access point. I didn’t really need another access point but the hype eventually got to me. To be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what it would do. All I knew, was what I had been told…

• The Meraki would bring free or cheap internet
• Meraki will wrestle the lucrative internet subscriber market from the grip of Telstra and Optus
• Meraki would allow users to route around what isn’t working and arrive somewhere better than it was before

If all this talk doesn’t yet have you convinced, then maybe my experience with a Meraki will. (more…)

It has been hard in the past to publish video on the web reliably, for a number of reasons, low bandwidth being the larger of the limiting factors. But there are many more users with fat bandwidth and big monthly quotas then there were 12 months ago. In November 2006 Australia’s largest internet provider Telstra, launched ADSL2+ and uncapped its ADSL1 services. Accordingly, the appetite for broadband has grown. Various reliable sources report :

• internet usage increased by 4% in 2007 to 74% of the population (ITU)
• there are approximately 5 million broadband connections australia-wide (OECD)

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