I’ve been involved, heavily, with PierToPier for a few years.I’m off traveling. Never will our largest advertising hording be seen again!

You can keep up with my travels at http://www.oceanhippie.net

This weekend is BarCampBrighton an unconference about technology.

Dave Phelan presented about piertopier.net. His slides are online

e had to rebuild our server, after it die a few weeks back. There may be some issues with logining in for the next 24 hours till DNS sorts its self out.

DNS is like that - sorry.

Due to the weather last time we’ve had to move the fiming of the TV show. to Thursday 9th August at 17:00, the initial meeting point is in the circular area down by the boats at the West Pier end of the Beach - Next to the Sailing Club hut. If you want more info please contact Tom on oceanhippie at yahoo dot com.Please Come allong - the more the merrier.

Steadfast TV are filliming on the beach as part of a documentry about ID Theft. They’re looking for laptopers to participate. Friday 27th on the beach at 17:30. Call 07949164286 or email oceanhippie@yahoo.com for more info.

We don’t exactly collect 10th generation family trees off our users, nor do we spy on them we can however tell them apart and who’s on. So far we’ve counted more than 9000 of them. In fact were quite looking forward to cracking the big 10k

Progress towards 10000 user mark:

The Graph shows to the total number of users PierToPier.net has counted so far (about the last 3 years).

we can also see home many users are on each day, on our best day we managed 121, a week after the Labour conferance 2005 - go figure?

The above graph shows the number of people using the network each day.

9000 users, thats a whole lotta laptops? I hear your sceptesim. But I’m pretty sure I know what I’m taking about. Every bit of wireless gear has a unique address built into it a “Mac Address” sometimes know as physical address. Weve been logging these (even from guest users) since about may 04, and counting them and we’re sure these are separate devices.

These up starts who’ve come along and wirelessed up their beaches, well someone compiled a top 10 wifi enabled beaches. We came second. I’m a bit peeved about it. In our defense, our beach has the largest paragraph, its the furthest from the Equator, being beaten by Clearwater in Florida is no disgrace. They have sand and the Caribbean. We have gravel and the English Channel.

Despite that we managed to beat Patong Beach, possibly the most famous Asian resort into 3rd.
Any way you can get the full list here:
http://www.geekabout.com/2007-01-18-78/top-10-beaches-with-wifi-internet -access.html

Thanks to Neilium for finding this (see the forums).

Our mailing list server has been annoying us with messages about spam it can’t deliver - more offten telling us that we have potential posts that need “moderating“. This was annoying. It wasn’t affecting people on the mailing lists. But it was driving us nuts. We’ve instituted “grey listing” a technique which delays incomming mail, the result being spammers give up but real mail servers - which should be concientious. Try again and are accepted.
I’ve trid this techique before it rocks. If you have trouble sending to the mailing list, post relavent info on the forums and I’ll sort it out. It may take a bit longer than you expect t for legit messages to arrive, the first time you email the new system this is perfectly normal.

Tom

Apparently London is (fianlly) getting with the program.
As this blog entry from one of our fans sugests.
Apparently Four Communications are providing free wireless in Leicester Square.