I have no desire to enter into this flamewar, but I wasn't aware that
Verizon even offered high speed wireless. I've used the sprint wireless
stuff and it was too slow to be useful and had 2-3 sec latencies. not
really useful for ssh unless you want to be reminded of a Citatel BBS
with a 300 baud modem. It did have great coverage though.

But 1-2 mbs is an entirely different beast, I've been able to run X over
my wireless connection at home. So I guess my question is isn't it
quality(nycw) vs coverage(verizon/sprint).

Not that I'm trying to compete with either, I just think it's fun to set
up a node, and it feels good to help people, plus others have donated
bandwidth and AP's in places I like to hang out.

-- Daniel

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Bon sy wrote:
]On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Terry Schmidt wrote:
]
]> In comparison though some things move faster, and we have more integration and
]> communication than large companies.  NYCwireless has more nodes in the metro
]> area than all the commercial 802.11 providers combined.
]>
]
]Are you sure about this? Do you count subscribers of even just Verizon
]wireless? It would be great if you can elaborate the sources the statement
]is based.
]
]But I personally think this is not an issue since the targeted
]audience would be different (namely, one is willing to pay for the service
]in return for quality and reliability, vs one is good for something for
]free). Please correct me if I am wrong.
]
]Bon
]
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