Thanks Glen, I was looking for some APs in Ottawa and it looks like they've got quite a few here.
fred ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Fleishman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wireless BAWUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 12:28 AM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Directory of 802.11b Public Access Points > 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 > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
