Verizon thru Empire City Subway controls a large amount of the conduit underground in the city.
ieee1473 appears to be completely independant of the link layer so in theory if your train ran 802.11x everything would work fine. If that would work in a tunnel is another matter. On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, jon baer wrote: > I asked an engineer @ city hall this question about a month ago + he said > that (despite what I thought) Verizon is not the main responsibility for the > phone underground and pointed me to another site that is a pretty > interesting read: > > http://www.tsd.org/ieee1473/index.htm > > I dont really get what this has to do with 802.11 but aparently its > "interoperatability" for its own underground network controlling the trains, > which would lead to think that there would be security concerns with > offering a public network within their own, not to mention vandalism > concerns ... does anyone here know someone @ verizon or mta? > > - jon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Yury G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:54 PM > Subject: [nycwireless] WiFi the NYC subway, Fact Check? > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to fact check something. Has the NYC subway (underground) > > ever had a WiFi or wireless internet connection, in any station, on any > > line, at any time? Other cities have installed wireless service in > > their subway stations, that much i'm aware of. But has NYC or the MTA > > ever tested this? anyone in the know? > > > > thank in advance, > > Yury > > > > -- > > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
