When municipal wireless provider MetroFi announced plans to shut off the Portland WiFi network in June, it promised to take down all the antennas by the end of July. They’re still up, though, and the city is starting to worry that Portland taxpayers may have to pick up the tab to dismantle them, says Mike [...]
With open source firmware an ordinary Wi-Fi router can get a new brain. You can create a wireless distribution system (WDS) or a mesh network, run a VPN or VoIP server, manage a hotspot RADIUS server, manage bandwidth use per protocol, control traffic shaping and other features.
DD-WRT (wiki and Wikipedia) is among the most popular, [...]
Cities have gone wireless for Safety and Surveillance, observes NPR. Cities are mapping out vast wireless zones to create safety nets, says National Public Radio’s Joshua Brockman. Public internet access has nothing to do with it.
Oklahoma City rolled out a municipal network covering 555-square-miles last month. It links hundreds of video surveillance cameras across [...]
Aircell which delivers WiFi on airplanes, via its Gogo service, today announced its intention to base its airplane-to-ground link on Long Term Evolution (LTE).
Aircell uses an exclusive FCC frequency license to provide a cellular data channel to airplanes. It currently uses CDMA EVDO Rev A to deliver an effective data rate of more than [...]
Oregon’s Westside Express Service (WES) will provide Wi-Fi for regional Commuter Rail, according to John Fall, Communications Coordinator for TriMet Community Affairs in Portland.
The $117.3 million commuter rail system will begin running in October or November, connecting the Beaverton Transit Center, on the West side of Portland with five commuter rail stations along [...]
Morgan: [scoffs] That’s wishful thinking if ever I heard it.
Julian Osborne: I’m not against wishful thinking. Not now.
– On the Beach
A new municipal wireless network now serves citizens and visitors of the Gangneung City and Gyeongpo Beach areas, the second largest tourist beach in Korea.
Deployed by Korea’s largest service provider, KT Corporation, the “Gangneung [...]
Proxim Wireless, today announced that Stephouse Networks, a Portland, OR based ISP (and the host for DailyWireless), has deployed Proxim equipment to provide the city of Portland with high speed wireless broadband connectivity. Stephouse has deployed a combination of Proxim’s Tsunami MP.11 WiMAX and Proxim’s ORiNOCO AP-4000LR Wi-Fi mesh technology to blanket seven square [...]
Into thin air — Why Silicon Valley Wi-Fi fizzled is a good summary of recent municipal wireless failures by Palo Alto Weekly.
This spring, Silicon Valley became the latest casualty of the Wi-Fi flop.
In April, Internet-service provider Earthlink pulled out of Milpitas, part of a strategy to abandon the municipal-wireless business altogether.
In May, Metrofi [...]
NBC Universal plans to use its coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games to launch a new system for measuring viewership across an array of different media, including video-on-demand, cellphones and the Web, as well as traditional television, reports the Wall Street Journal.
NBC hopes the new system — which will be offered to advertisers at the [...]
Minutes ago I was looking at the list of networks I could pickup in my
home. MetroFi-Free and MetroFi-Premium were listed and then both
suddenly disappeared. They have not reappeared in the last 5 minutes,
which I take as a sign that the power has been pulled.
Can anyone confirm that they see the same thing?
Michael Weinberg
President
Personal Telco Project, [...]
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