Anthony Townsend wrote: > There's not much you can do - New York was lucky enough to be the > first place to see near-seamless proliferation of open hotspots We > are also the first place to see over-saturation of 2.4 Ghz. > > I've ben surveying people informally about this and have really > noticed a big upswing in incidents in the last 6 months. It's > dissapointing - I didn't expect this "tragedy of the commons" to > happen so quickly. I'm very worried about what happens when the FCC > realizes this is happening, and likely to happen elsewhere. > > NYCwireless needs to be involved in solving this problem, either > technically or socially. That is the only way to avoid a regulatory > clampdown.
Agreed - and I'd be interested in helping this problem however I can. It seems that, at least in NYC, hotspots should be replaced with hot-zones, meaning coordinated coverage of an area as Robin-David Hammond pointed out, thus reducing frequency clutter. --- Hans Zaunere President, New York PHP http://www.nyphp.com +1 212 213 1131 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
