Issues Missing From the Current Debate
Anthony Townsend
Research Director
Technology Horizons Program
Institute for the Future
Palo Alto, California
http://www.iftf.org
From Philadelphia to San Francisco to Portland, plans for municipal wireless
networks are on the drawing board in hundreds
Has anyone tried this EVDO-Wifi router? I am considering buying one for my
car so I can be the biggest geek in Silicon Valley
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Only one but you have to send it to the right place.
vic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote @ 3/20/06 5:00 PM:
How many requests do I have to make to remove me from this e-mail list?
Please tell me:
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Intel's Placelab (www.placelab.org) was a great privacy -sensitive wifi
based positioning system developed at their Seattle Lab. But its since been
handed over to Microsoft as part of Virtual Earth and they are going to keep
ll your personal location data and do anythign they want with it
On
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051002/D8CVIHNG0.html
Google Bids to Provide WiFi in San Fran
Oct 1, 8:24 PM (ET)
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
(AP) Google Inc. chief executive Eric Schmidt applauds during a news
conference in Mountain View,...
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i think we need to be realistic about what we can do with wireless in
major disasters like this. for the most part the Red Cross, Nat'l
Guard, FEMA, etc are very well equipped communications-wise.
while we're on it - is Katrina going to be the start of another short-
lived collective whine
San Francisco to announce citywide wifi plans at 2 pm PDT / 5pm EDT
(webcast)
http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=27
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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
July 14, 2005
For Surfers, a Roving Hot Spot That Shares
By JOHANNA JAINCHILL
When the Sunningdale Country Club in Scarsdale, N.Y., opened its
gates last week to a location shoot for The Sopranos, a new fixture
was on display in the mobile dressing rooms - a roving Wi-Fi hot spot.
With a
The Talk of the Town
AROUND CITY HALL
THE PUBLIC WHAT?
by Ben McGrath
Issue of 2005-07-11 and 18
Posted 2005-07-04
It does not necessarily recommend the office of the public advocate
that one of the candidates currently seeking the post counts as his
chief reason for campaigning a wish to
http://j-walk.com/other/wifispray/
hah!
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or you could just use PlaceLab for free
www.placelab.org
On Jun 13, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Rob Kelley wrote:
From gpspassion.com:
[http://www.gpspassion.com/fr/news.asp#news_592]
With the deployment of A-GPS (Assisted GPS - technical details)
somewhat in the air, here comes AlwaysOnGPS
T-Mobile: 450,000 People Paid to Use Wi-Fi
- Jun 13, 2005 12:38 AM (AP Online)
By BRUCE MEYERSON AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- T-Mobile USA disclosed user statistics from its
Wi-Fi business for the first time Monday, reporting that 450,000
customers have paid to access the
has anyone figured out the business model here?
or is this guy just blowing his trust fund on free wifi? (which i
wholeheartedly approve!)
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NYC WI-FI IN THE PARK: 46 MB AND RUNNING!
Check out this Rocketboom video interview of Marshall
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coverage is only inside the 3rd flood food court of the Pier 17(?) mall
On May 17, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Joe Plotkin wrote:
The circuit is up and pingable -- and traffic pattern from today
looks like normal usage on the circuit.
SSID should be cornercast or emenity, I think.
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Subject: Open Park Update --We need your help !
Anthony:
Thought I would bring this to your attention so
these might be useful services for list members
Wi-Fi Networking News
Wi-Fi Networking News reports nearly daily on all the news
associated with wireless networking.
The Latest VPN for Rent
At some point, they'll be too many to mention, but PublicVPN.com is
the newest member of the club:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/wo/wo_042505stu.asp?
trk=top
The WiMax Difference
By Stu Hutson April 25, 2005
WiMAX, or the 802.16 standard, is meant to do for to the Internet what
cell phones did for making telephone calls. Soon, Internet access will
span for miles with
what happens when Verizon pulls the plug on its wi-fi network!
On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Rob Kelley wrote:
FYI. From a press release from the Antenna manufacturer:
[http://www.wifi-plus.com/pages/12/index.htm]
;:The content delivery process is all-digital and extremely fast, with
the ads sent
http://www.geosimulation.org/geosim/wifi.htm
another take on wardriving maps
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what do you all think?
i believe i've been running into interference issues here and there in
Manhattan - which may signal this is about to become more widespread.
http://www.muniwireless.com/archives/000629.html
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for those interested in happenings on the other side of the pond
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fyi I've written up the first two events from the Wireless London
series here
http://citynoise.blogspot.com/2005/01/wireless-london-event.html
anyone have any experience with the various models of stand-alone web
streaming video cameras?
basically i'm looking for something that i can use at the many
workshops and events we have at NYU, just plop down on the table and
stream the event to the Internet. so it needs sound, and decent
On Feb 17, 2005, at 4:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Awhile that is all and interesting, the FCC can make any legislation
of
the type null and void, as it is the body in charge of this.
*plonk*
FCC is the federal agency in charge of implementing
but apparently they haven't figured out that a bunch of guys running
around with laptops isn't very sneaky.
;)
On Feb 18, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Robert Kim, Wireless Internet Consultant
wrote:
One of my clients is the US federal marshals office ... They use the
evdo router to cast local area wifi
let me offer a few reasons why its a good idea:
1) during emergencies - either for civilians to call 911, or public
officials to communicate w/ outside world (yes they have radios, but
cell phones are a good backup)
2) economic development - it makes the city a more modern, business
friendly
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Subject: Wireless Network
Anthony,
I am having trouble with borrowing my neighbors internet. I found a
server that has default and connected to it so that I have an IP
address but I still do not have access
Verizon
On Dec 21, 2004, at 1:13 AM, Dana Spiegel wrote:
she'd like to know who-
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on OS X?
On Dec 9, 2004, at 7:37 PM, Anthony Townsend wrote:
i'm having problems with an Airport-ed iBook that keeps connecting to
my neighbor's linksys AP even though i've created a Location in my
NEtwork prefs to tell it to connect to www.nycwireless.net
anyone every experience anything similar
i'm having problems with an Airport-ed iBook that keeps connecting to
my neighbor's linksys AP even though i've created a Location in my
NEtwork prefs to tell it to connect to www.nycwireless.net
anyone every experience anything similar?
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its still up in the air if the gov will sign
also, if they finish the proposed project by 3/1/2006 i think they will
not be blocked by this law
On Nov 23, 2004, at 12:10 AM, Rob Kelley wrote:
Some said making all downtown Philly wireless was too ambitious (not
me), but now according to
How To Steal Wi-Fi: And how to keep the neighbors from stealing yours.
By Paul Boutin
Posted Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004, at 2:16 PM PT
When I moved into a new neighborhood last week, I expected the usual
hassles. Then I found out I'd have to wait more than a month for a DSL
line. I started
yes it was announced about a year and a half ago. they required a $5000
(i think) deposit to bid, which pretty much ruled NYCwireless out from
the get-go.
this is the Parks Dept, like every other NYC agency, trying to whore
itself out to any willing buyer, to maximize revenue in a very tight
has anyone considered how highly unlikely it is that all 15 of these
lines are going to be in use simultaneously?
maybe if its a call center, but not if its Yury's pals (artists?)
i would oversubscribe 3:1 or even 4:1 and say a 768/1.5 business ADSL
would be more than enough. a 384/1.5 might
three options, in increasing order of technical difficulty
http://m0n0.ch/wall/
http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/
http://www.ilesansfil.org/wiki/WiFiDog
Monowall and pebble require some kind of linux box, preferably an
embedded device like the Soekris Net 4501
WiFiDog can be installed on a
i think the challenge is not what protocol we use, but getting someone
regularly to show up and record a decent clip for webcasting
On Nov 2, 2004, at 3:12 PM, Jonathan Greene wrote:
The nice thing about the Podcasting stuff is that you can support
Torrent files as well as mp3, aac or any other
here's the final version. dumps the # of packets received over 10
second intervals to /var/tmp/packetcount
#!/usr/local/perl
#
# A perl script to count packets on Ethernet and 802.11b networks for
network activity visualization projects
# Anthony Townsend, Kurt Starsinic
# Distributed under GPL
hi all - another help request
i have a student who needs a short script that will use tcpdump to
count the total # of packets heard on a wireless network every N
seconds
was able to find this Perl snippet as a start, but need to figure out a
way to make it end after N seconds and then output
hi all - i have a couple of students who are building interesting captive
portal projects at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Project.
to keep development costs down, i thought i'd reach out to see if anybody on
the list has old PCs or wireless APs that we can use for these projects.
Where Good Wi-Fi Makes Good Neighbors
October 21, 2004
By IAN KELDOULIS
MOHIT SANTRAM, a student at New York University, happily
shares his high-speed Internet connection with whoever taps
the wireless signal available within about 300 feet of his
apartment in the East Village.
But Mr. SantRam
Gotham Gazette -
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/tech/20041019/19/1154
Tech, Art, Protest and Politics
by Laura Forlano
October 10, 2004
In City Hall Park at the beginning of the month, Joshua Kinberg, a
recent graduate of the Parsons School of Design, was exhibiting the
device that had
for starters, change channels. run net/macstumbler and pick the least
used of 1,6 or 11
also you should be able to designate preferred networks in XP or use
Location profiles in OSX
On Oct 19, 2004, at 10:10 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote:
When I first got my wireless AP it was great - I could pretty
FCC Chair to Seek Net Telephone Oversight
Tue Oct 19, 5:08 PM ET
By MARK JEWELL, AP Business Writer
BOSTON - FCC (news - web sites) Chairman Michael Powell said Tuesday
that he would seek broad regulatory authority for the federal
government over Internet-based telephone services to avoid
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i'm in need of a circuit/device/meter that can listen on different
bands - mainly digital cellular - and output a measure of aggregate
activity on that band.
the goal is to build a simple device that can somewhat accurately
measure how many people are talking on cell phones in the general
some details from today's NY Times looks like the Philly project
is a lot more modest that the original spin - just public areas with
some potential spillage into homes.
$10 million for this sounds a lot more feasible.
Big Wi-Fi Project for Philadelphia
September 27, 2004
By BOB TEDESCHI
http://newyork.citysearch.com/roundup/40211?
ulink=home__contentslot3_4___roundup__1
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I have a Soekris Net4501 for sale. It has a 256 Mb Compact Flash in it
(loaded with m0n0wall 1.1 beta firewall captive portal s/w), as well
as a PCI wireless card. AC adapter also included as is powder blue case
this would cost you almost $300 ($185 board + $9 AC + $50 CF + $50 wifi
card),
anyone know which tmobile phones have bluetooth?
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NYCwireless participated in this meeting with 3 representatives
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Posted 8/19/2004 4:39 AM
Supporters of community wireless networks gather
By Jim Paul, Associated Press
URBANA, Ill. Federal regulators are working on new rules governing
use of the airwaves to give more people access to
August 27, 2004
A Virtual Work-Around for the RNC
By Susan Kuchinskas
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3400821
[snip]
While Wi-Fi (define) has been banned from the convention floor,
delegates who venture outdoors can take advantage of free Wi-Fi
provided by NYCwireless, a
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NEC @ Shirky.com, a mailing list about Networks, Economics, and
i think what they meant is that we should confine our proposal to
neighborhoods that are not likely to attract commercial wireless
carriers in the near- to mid-range future
On Aug 8, 2004, at 4:42 PM, Rob Kelley wrote:
only if its something that they can show has no
commercial value (otherwise
NYCwireless met with the City to talk about using lamp posts.
the response was that they would consider a proposal, as long as it
wasn't prime real estate - there is a possibility we could get no-cost
use of lampposts, but only if its something that they can show has no
commercial value
NYCwireless community:
I'm looking for contacts in lower-income neighborhoods to talk to about
doing a large-scale last mile wireless network, to provide Internet
access to homes, small businesses, and non-profit organizations.
Some of you may be aware that the NYC Council was discussing ways
Where is this to be published?
Some of the NYCw directors were actually discussing doing an annual
awards event along these lines...
My favorite is actually a bar - D/B/A on 1st ave between 2nd/3rd st.
;)
On Jul 8, 2004, at 9:50 AM, Yury Gitman wrote:
/products/homenetwork/internetproduct/refrigerator/introduction.jsp
This is the kind of country, too, where industry will do what the government
tells it too, since I think there is a high likelihood this will happen on
schedule.
Anthony Townsend
Fulbright Exchange Scholar
Seoul Development Institute
check out www.placelab.com
Anthony Townsend wrote:
a couple of questions... this is a very cool project, but i wonder
about its sustainability given the very rapidly changing base of
installed APs
1) how sensitive is PlaceLab to APs not showing up due to power off,
decommission, moved, etc
is the beginning of the end for unlicensed?
-
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2u=/cmp/20040625/tc_cmp/
22101829
Mobile Pipeline News
Attendees of this week's Supercomm trade show in Chicago faced a
variety of wireless LAN security breaches, according to a firm that
Yes, but does this FCC ruling mean that any lease clauses that impose
this kind of restriction are unenforceable?
On Jun 29, 2004, at 1:31 AM, Tom Atkins wrote:
Another way, highlighted in this article is to designate a WiFi
authority for a particular chunk of real estate. I've seen this
http://www.meshcube.org/index_e.html
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Could this end up in court. This probably falls under the same legal
area as the FCC's crackdown on cell-phone jammers in theaters and fancy
restaurants... you're just not allowed to interfere with with wireless
communications anywhere, anytime unless the FCC says its ok.
Contracts can often
this was totally different - more about opening a competitive front to
cable tv and the right to put antennas on roofs of co-ops and rental
apartment buildings (which you do have the inalienable right i believe)
I recall there was a debate a few years ago about tenents being able to
put up DTV
Adam, I think you're right. We need solid, redundant, reliable,
low-tech solutions for emergency communications.
let me take this opportunity to announce the existence of another
listserv, run by me for NYU's Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and
Response (http://www.nyu.edu/ccpr).
CATCOMM
hmm. how about from Korea?
On Jun 21, 2004, at 7:10 AM, Karol Kulaga wrote:
I've given up trying to fax over Vonage. I've had so many problems and
their
support hasn't helped a bit. That said, I'm in Oregon, so things may be
different on the other side of the country.
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well I wasn't advocating a client app, i was just pointing out the
general level of sophistication here w/r/t to wireless security. this
is a carrier FORCING its customers to implement a security precaution
i think its a network-specific app
On Jun 15, 2004, at 4:06 AM, Ben N. Serebin wrote:
thought this post from my blog might interest all...
Unlike most of the rest of the world, where using public Wi-Fi (even
when you pay) is a use-at-your-own-risk activity w/ no link-layer
encryption, in Korea the first network I tried to use -requires- you to
install a small client app that
i think we've won - what's next for NYCwireless?
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Where Entrepreneurs Go and the Internet Is Free
By MATT RICHTEL
SAN FRANCISCO, June 6 - Linda Branagan would seem to be the ideal
customer for entrepreneurs and telecommunications companies looking to
make money
our Yury Gitman is getting famous-er every day
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** Wireless web gets a set of wheels **
A New York artist has come up with the idea of turning his bicycle
into a wireless net connection.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/3726347.stm
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6/7 Newsweek is a cover story on wireless world/wireless cities.
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The Downtown Wireless Network expands again
First-Ever Internet Cable Escape Marks Increased Wireless
Availability Downtown
Wrapped Head-to-Toe in Cat 5 Cable, Man Has Only Minutes to Escape
May 27, 2004 at 11 a.m.
World Financial Center Winter Garden
250 Vesey Street
World Financial
Community Wi-Fi Stays Ahead of Commercial Efforts
By Carlo Longino, Mon May 17 23:00:00 GMT 2004
In addition to free access, community Wi-Fi groups are offering
applications and features commercial providers would never dream of.
NYCwireless, which manages 8 free hotspots in Lower Manhattan,
Open Park Project Launches Free Wi-Fi Service On Capitol Hill: Coverage
of National Mall Planned
Washington D.C. The Open Park Project, a Washington D.C. non-profit,
launched the first public outdoor wireless Internet hotspot in the
nations capital today. The free service provides coverage
He should - this project was Jordan Silbert's baby.
On Apr 27, 2004, at 8:39 AM, Ben N. Serebin wrote:
Hello All,
This was discussed in the NY Times yesterday (or the day
before). Maybe the speaker tomorrow (NYCwireless meeting tomorrow
evening) will further elaborate on this.
i bought one and didn't like it. feels like a little plastic toy, not
real toughbook feel
its semi-rugged not fully ruggedized. also pretty underpowered for
the price
On Apr 21, 2004, at 10:00 PM, Ben N. Serebin wrote:
Hello All,
A bit off-topic, but I'm looking to purchase the Panasonic
ummm, wireless is another option to consider
;)
On Apr 6, 2004, at 6:10 PM, Don Montalvo wrote:
the faster we move to broadband over electrical lines, the better off
we'll be.
:)
don
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they have asign outside at DBA 1st ave between 1st and 2nd, Always
free Wi-Fi at DBA
free wi-fi seems to be catching on at east village bars, presumably as
a way to generate some business during the daytime
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just setup on os x with a motorola v300 usb data cable.
only getting 20k/15k down/up from my apartment according to speakeasy
speed test
anyone have any better success? is there a more accurate way to test
the connection speed?
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anyone have any experience with either the motorola WR850G (router +
ap) or the WA840G (ap)?
i'm having some problems with extremely long time to allocate an IP to
DHCP clients (5-10 minutes sometimes)
also, having lots of trouble with the WDS standalone repeating features
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hi all - do we have any architects out there interested in working with
me on an entry for NYC's new streetlamp design competition?
i want to submit a design that incorporates accommodations for wireless
infrastructure.
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The Wireless Internet Institute is pleased to announce that the newly
released report The Wireless Internet and Municipal Government is now
available online. Drawing on a summit of the same name, the report
addresses the range of
i think its more about taking up real estate.
On Feb 2, 2004, at 3:07 PM, Dana Spiegel wrote:
This is interesting... We should try to do some digging to find out
how much power is really an issue. If you are sitting with your laptop
for 2 hours, how much $$$ are you costing alt.coffee in
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/tech/20031224/19/814
Wireless Goes Indoors
by Laura Forlano
December, 2003
Just as New Yorkers are getting used to the idea that we can check
e-mail and surf the Internet for free from Bryant Park, winter storms
chased city residents and their laptops
Happy Holidays to all from the NYCwireless Board of Directors:
For those seeking a last minute tax writeoff, please don't forget that
donations to NYCwireless are 100% tax deductible. Your contributions
will help support NYCwireless' program of events in 2004 including an
exciting new list
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:17:01 -0500
From: Dave Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IP] Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:16:37 -0800
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Hi - I need someone to help us design some window stickers to mark the
presence of free hotspots...
This should be a rather quick project with minimal time commitments...
thanks
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Using a Bicycle to Uplink on a Downtown
Platform
Using a Bicycle to Uplink on a Downtown Platform
December 15, 2003
By DAVID F.
NYCwireless' philosophy of free wireless networks is really catching on
this winter in the East Village.
in the past two days, I've spotted two new locations that are offering
free Wi-Fi. a new sushi restaurant that opened at 2nd ave 2nd street,
and the Ace Bar on 5th St btwn A/B (now open
this is a must for anyone with a camera phone, or Wifi laptop and
digital camera
http://new.bastish.net/cgi-bin/mfop2/index.cgi
basically, its an email-to-blog gateway that will post any image and
comments you send to your blog for you.
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Any idea where the funding came from to do this. It is
interesting that of the Manhattan libraries only one of
them is in midtown or even close to midtown. It almost
looks like some sort of digital divide initiative.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 19:28:32 -0500, Anthony Townsend
wrote:
Just in time
Hi - I'm looking for people to help research the status of Wi-Fi
regulation around the world.
i need 3-4 people who are willing to research each of 50 or so
countries. we'll use the gathered data to make a big map that will be
featured on the Wireless Commons website to launch in late
Just in time for the snow...
http://www.nypl.org/branch/services/wifi.html
FREE WIRELESS COMPUTING AT THE LIBRARY
You are invited to explore The New York Public Library's fast Internet
network using your own Wireless-enabled laptop computer. Free access is
provided in all public areas in the
we actually talked about 2 years ago (Terry, Marcos, and I) with the
City's Dept of Info Tech and Telecom about this - they were supportive,
but their hands are tied by a very complex franchising system.
that said, anything that doesn't generate revenue for NYC's coffers is
just not realistic
Yahoo! Sets Up Christmas Tree With Internet Receiver
NOVEMBER 28TH, 2003
First cell phones, then the Internet, and now even Christmas trees
are going wireless.
Yahoo.com has set up a Christmas tree in Herald Square with a
wireless Internet receiver on top.
New Yorkers walking by with a laptop
what setup would one require to create an office WLAN from a point to
point uplink?
i am planning on using a Dlink DWL900AP+ w/ an external Yagi for the
point to point - how should i connect it to another AP to create a
hotspot?
am i better off buying an AP with 2 radios? or can you
an alternative -
it would be nice to start gathering statistics on usage an NYCwireless
nodes. for NoCatAuth-based nodes, we could set up a central syslog
facility - then the stats could be accessed through MYSQL/PHP etc and
support any number of alternative mapping/visualization experiments.
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