Welsh Village Staylittle : BBC The Big Life Fix with Simon Reeve

[Rob Thomas]

Hi, 

Just watched a BBC TV show this week which used your equipment to set up a mesh network for a small village in Wales, Staylittle (great name!), who did have broadband provided by via high latency satellite, but more importantly needed an alternative to an unreliable landline phone service. I haven't seen it mentioned on the forums or on your website so I'd thought I'd post this as its great example of using mesh potato to provide solutions to real world problems. 

Programme Description : The UK's leading inventors create ingenious new solutions to everyday problems and build life-changing solutions for people in desperate need.

Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084ztrw

Detailed write up from one of the fixers : http://www.rossatkin.com/wp/?portfolio=staylittle-telecom

Cheers

Rob

[T Gillett]

Hi Rob
Thanks very much for posting the story. It's great to hear what people are doing with the MPs.
Regards
Terry

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[Steve Song]

Hi Rob,

I have just managed to watch it.  It takes a bit of VPN magic to watch it outside of the UK.  I felt quite proud of what we (and by we I mean the whole community) have created.  Notable also in the program was the fact that they were able to mix and match Village Telco technologies with other WiFi devices like Ubiquiti to create the right solution to the problem.  Open source and open standards FTW!

Thanks too for sharing the link to the detailed write-up.

Cheers... Steve

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[Steve Song]

There is a youtube excerpt of the show at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=702l8-gLOk8