Not sure, but I think that is correct as it stands, unless perhaps you can
backdoor into Fon from overseas. Fon seems pretty big in Europe. This
could have some kind of interoperability requirement thrown at it like
phone systems. Better still would be an open national system. I thought
this co
Unless I'm reading it wrong, doesn't that mean however that anybody who is
not a Telstra customer can't use the hotspots provided by the dual-WiFi APs?
That's not really that much of a public WiFi infrastructure to my mind?
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Jim Birch wrote:
> Fon or Fon-like sy
Fon or Fon-like systems have a number of significant advantages, which
actually seem close to my ideal of how shared wifi would work.
Any enabled router (with suitable software) can join the network and become
a provider. This could be an existing business, a home router, or a router
set up speci
Tom,
Having just returned from Seoul, I am all in favour of public wifi. In Seoul,
every cafe/restaurant/etc provides free wifi and this enables me to roam around
Seoul and receive calls on Skype or the very successful Kakaotalk system the
Koreans love-all at no cost and do all my emails and ot
On 24/09/14 07:24, Karl Auer wrote:
> ... Not worthy of the same rights
> and freedoms that we would demand for ourselves? ...
No, my point was that the ACT Government's public WiFi project is just a
PR exercise, not a serious communications project. There is no point
worrying about the details,
On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 06:59 +1000, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Roger, I don't think this is worth worrying about. This is just to
> provide WiFi for tourists in parts of Civic. It is unfortunate that the
> ACT Government is wasting $4M on this project.
Because tourists are a lower form of life? Not
On 23/09/14 08:24, Roger Clarke wrote:
> Canberra's wi-fi network to block file sharing P2P traffic Andrew
> Colley itNews Sep 22, 2014 3:05 PM (16 hours ago)
> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/392353,canberras-wi-fi-network-to-block-file-sharing-p2p-traffic.aspx
Roger, I don't think this is worth wo
My first reaction is "Good luck with that, it'll never work.", but I think
the intention is not so much to stop people using peer to peer as to be
able to say that they are doing something about it. The ABC is in a similar
situation with iView: They geoblock access so they can say to their
overseas
[Can anyone work out what's actually being done here?]
[I've embedded a number of queries.]
[It's unclear who 'Mr Bader' is, so I can't ask him.]
[And Kathy Leigh's spokeswoman is unnamed.]
[Declaration: I chaired the ACT Govt's Online Services Advisory Committee some
years back, so I have mo
