On 5/3/02 4:37 PM, "Fred Reinthaler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a directory that has canadian public APs?
The research I did back in November, and continue to do on an ongoing basis, indicates that the only remaining WISP in Canada offering more than a point here or there is Fatport in Vancouver, B.C. SkyLink Internet Plus, around since about 1996, disappeared from view for at least a few weeks and didn't return my calls or email. Their Web site also stopped working for a while. However, I just checked and they're back, although it seems to me with fewer locations: <http://skylink.ca/locations.htm> I'd love to know if there are any other national or regional WISPs in Canada as well. You can imagine my frustration on a recent trip from Seattle via Vancouver to the Whistler ski area: we met my fiancee's brother at the Vancouver airport and although there is an extensive and superb Nokia-built Wi-Fi network, there's no public service at the moment. You can look, but not touch. In Whistler, there are five Internet cafes, but no Wi-Fi. I spoke to a couple of people up there, one of whom owns one of the cafes, and he plans to install service soon, and another Canadian group also told me of their near-term plans. In fact, the next time I hit Whistler for next ski season, it could be blanketed in snow and 2.4 GHz signals. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Fleishman, Unsolicited Pundit: read my work at http://glennf.com freelance reporter for The New York Times, Wired, O'Reilly Net, et al. Macintosh columnist, The Seattle Times http://seattletimes.com/ptech/ read all the wireless networking news at http://80211b.weblogger.com/ daily Web log musing on technology and my life http://blog.glennf.com/ -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
