You have likely reached this page by following one of the following URLs:

Of course, these were not links, but rather they were WIFI ESSIDs, but you were smart enough to type them into your browser, wondering what they are. This page was setup specifically for the curious types like you.

The networks marked for Dawson are located at the Dawson Avenue office of Sandelman Software Works. My name is Michael Richardson, and if you live nearby, you likely recognize me, if you don't know me.

The guest networks are open and please free to use them. You will find that they have both legacy 1990s IP version 4 Internat, and also modern IPv6 Internet.

The networks marked with a 5 are on the 5Ghz 802.11a spectrum. Due to limited distance of 802.11a, it is you are probably in my living room if you can see them.

mesh.sandelman.ca

Running on the mesh.sandelman.ca network is a layer-3 IPv6 mesh system. You may seen this network some distance from my home. That is because mesh networks involve many systems, and like the shampoo ad, each system tells two friends, and the message spreads.

Mesh networks can be very powerful, and with some community leadership, can be grassroots tool to permit communication despite restrictions imposed by incumbent telephone companies. Or it can be used by to read water and electric meters; as the city of Ottawa is doing. The water and electric networks are not connected, are incompatible with each other and non-standard (therefore, single-sourced).

Sandelman Software Works is running mesh.sandelman.ca as part of research into how to build and use open standards based layer-3 mesh networks. You may see this network running ROLL or BABELD.

Please feel free to connect to use mesh.sandelman.ca from your Android, Mac or Linux machine. Windows 7/8 might also work. Please note that there is no native IPv4 connectivity, so some legacy computers might think that there is nothing there.