[nycwireless] [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW MEETING LOCATION with MatchupCamp
*** We are having a special meeting this month at MatchupCamp *** TONIGHT!! Wednesday, Nov 28, 2007 at 7:00pm *** NOTE -- different location: For Your Imagination 22 West 27th Street 6th Floor New York, NY 10001 As part of NextNY, we've decided to try something new and have our November NYCwireless meeting as part of MatchupCamp. The meeting time is the same, but the location has changed. As innovators and entrepreneurs, we think that MatchupCamp is a great idea and something that many NYCwireless members will enjoy. About MatchupCamp - http://www.nextny.org/wiki/show/MatchupCamp - MatchupCamp - matchmaking for startups - is all about startup networking, creating a place for ideas and talent to meet. There are many events matching professional services to startups - this one will focus on those looking to get their hands dirty and build something new. MatchupCamp has the sole objective of bringing together people looking to start, expend, or join a startup in New York (and the tri-state area). *** Please be sure to register yourself at the MatchupCamp site *** = NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TONIGHT! 7pm: Monthly Meeting: Art Wifi in Harlem
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! (no costumes please) Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 7:00pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: Judith Escalona, Director of MediaNoche, will speak about her organization and discuss a proposal to bring a mesh Wi-Fi network to her area of Harlem. We will also be brainstorming and planning how to create this mesh network About MediaNoche? http://www.medianoche.us/ MediaNoche is the place where art, technology and community converge. We offer artists working in new media exhibition space and residencies in order to provoke a dialogue that blurs all lines of marginality and alterity. Unique among art and technology groups, MediaNoche is directly linked to the oldest Latino community of New York City, Spanish Harlem, and has showcased a roster of local and international new media artists. MediaNoche is a project of PRdream.com and is supported in part by New York Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and individuals. = NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Tomorrow, Wed. @7pm: Monthly Meeting
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 7:00pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: Judith Escalona, Director of MediaNoche, will speak about her organization and discuss a proposal to bring a mesh Wi-Fi network to her area of Harlem. We will also be brainstorming and planning how to create this mesh network About MediaNoche? MediaNoche is the place where art, technology and community converge. We offer artists working in new media exhibition space and residencies in order to provoke a dialogue that blurs all lines of marginality and alterity. Unique among art and technology groups, MediaNoche is directly linked to the oldest Latino community of New York City, Spanish Harlem, and has showcased a roster of local and international new media artists. MediaNoche is a project of PRdream.com and is supported in part by New York Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and individuals. = NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] [EMAIL PROTECTED] August Meeting: Sustainable wifi for developing world
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! NYCwireless August Meeting TONIGHT!! TONIGHT!! TONIGHT!! Wed, August 29th, 2007 at 7:00pm Please note earlier starting time for meeting. Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: Presentation by -- Michael Hallinan and Tejpaul Bhatia, GlobeCo2020 Company Description GlobeCo2020 is sharing the internet with the developing world. We are a media services company that delivers digital content into emerging markets. We aim to develop sustainable business models for broadband networks. We are focused on bridging the global digital divide due to poor infrastructure and unsustainable business models in the developing world. Join us at NYCwireless to help answer how wireless technologies can be used to bridge the global digital divide. Topics covered: - Wireless infrastructure in the developing world - Content delivery as a business model - A franchise model for wireless networks - Emphasis on brainstorming, questions and feedback Bios: Michael Rourk Hallinan As a Captain in the Marine Corps, Michael has six years of experience planning, installing, operating and maintaining over 20 wireless and satellite voice, video and data systems in Australia, Kenya, Kuwait, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Iraq and Hurricane Katrina ravaged parts of the US. Michael received the Navy-Marine Corps Achievement Medal for leading 50 Marines with inexhaustible energy during the final combat offensive in Fallujah, Iraq. He also received a Navy Commendation Medal for leading 50 engineers in deploying wireless networks throughout Asia and the Middle East. He is an active member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and founder of Semper Fi House, a community support initiative for Marines. Prior to the Marine Corps, Michael founded Student Media Group, which distributed student media nationally for companies such as ATT and Citibank. Michael has also held various positions at Merrill Lynch, the US Senate and the US Department of Justice. Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from Georgetown University. He is a board member of The Way of Grace Development Corporation, which is developing social and physical infrastructure in the war torn country of Liberia. Michael has worked with the SoCal FreeNet project, which brings free wireless access to lower-economic neighborhoods in San Diego. Tejpaul Bhatia Tejpaul Bhatia is the founder of Tej Media Networks, a consulting company that provides digital technology and strategy services to global media companies including ESPN, NBC, SONY, ABC, Brightcove and Corpus. Tejpaul was most recently senior manager of international business strategy for ESPN, where he planned and launched new media businesses in Mexico, Latin America, Asia, Australia and Europe. He joined ESPN in 2002 to build the underlying infrastructure for acquiring, distributing and tracking video on multiple digital platforms and was responsible for conceiving, developing and distributing ESPN360, the company's customizable global broadband service. --- NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. --- NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. --- -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] [EMAIL PROTECTED] July Meeting: Skyhook Wireless
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! Wed, July 25th, 2007 at 7:00pm Please note earlier starting time for meeting. Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: -Ryan Sarver, Skyhook Wireless Skyhook pioneered the development of the first ever metro-area positioning system to leverage Wi-Fi access points rather than satellites or cell towers to deliver precise geographic location. The Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) requires no new hardware, works indoors and outdoors, provides location instantly, and is more accurate than current technologies indoors and in metropolitan areas. Ryan is in charge of Product Development for Skyhook Wireless which includes products like Loki and Loki Mobile. He is also the Chair of LocationAware.org and is an Invited Expert for the W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group. http://www.skyhookwireless.com http://www.LocationAware.org = NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] NYCw Summer Recess: no June meeting!
Our June Meeting has been called off due to several scheduling conflicts, as well as the great summer weather. We encourage everyone to enjoy more time outdoors, using free wifi throughout NYC. Our next meeting will be held on Wed. July 25th, 2007. See you then. NYCwireless Board = NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of **ALMOST** every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
RE: [nycwireless] Article: Covad goes the last mile
And unless he was mis-quoted, this Covad spokesperson is just plain wrong on line-shared DSL definition. The DSL circuit is dedicated bandwidth on each circuit -- NOT shared bandwidth like cable. Line-shared DSL merely refers to sharing the physical medium (telephone line), but the services are distinct and separate. So not only is he simply incorrect on facts, this spokes-genius is actually slamming Covad's main product line!! Bway.net is a wholesale customer of Covad's, and as Bway's marketing person, I can assure you that Mr McIver is both incorrect and delivering the wrong message. - Joe At 3:27 PM -0400 6/13/07, Dean Collins wrote: Lol - and wi-max isn't a shared medium and going to take the same hit at 3pm with all those kooky kids (ahmm you mean customers Mr Covad...?) Bad PR spun wrong looking for a story (not that I'm against Wi-Max far from it) I just hate when marketing speople get involved. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-212-203-4357 Ph +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nycwireless- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Kelley Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2007 1:33 PM To: nycwireless@lists.nycwireless.net Subject: [nycwireless] Article: Covad goes the last mile Hmm. Another suggestion about how to get off copper. How feasible is this? http://voxilla.com/soapvox/2007/06/08/covad-goes-the-last-mile-219 snip When you're the only national DSL network in the U.S. what do you do for your next act? You disintermediate the copper wire. In plain English, you take it out of the equation. And the way you take it out is with fixed WiMax technology. That's the idea right now at Covad, according to Director of Marketing Simon McIver. The SMB market is ripe for a new connection, according to McIver. Small and mid- size businesses are waking up to the fact that consumer broadband services don't cut it for business applications like POS systems, Web servers, or even office email. The problem with cable and DSL is that it's a shared line. That means that things may work smoothly at 9:00 a.m. when kids are in school, but slow down at 3:00 p.m. when they get out and hit the MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games). A traditional solution is a good old fashioned T1 line with 1.5 megabytes locked in, explains McIver. It's consistent, it's always there. But for small businesses, it's a prohibitively costly solution. That's where fixed WiMax comes in. Unlike WiFi, WiMax can deliver the assured bandwidth and higher reliability of a T1 with a lot less infrastructure. WiMax also has wider range and better coverage than WiFi - especially indoors. /snip -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin Broadband/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 phone: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] connectivity: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VoIP info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TONIGHT at 7 PM! May Meeting
TONIGHT! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! Wed, May 30th, 2007 at 7:00pm Please note earlier starting time for meeting. Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: Ad hoc discussion, topics may include: - NYCw update - recent wifi rulings (is sharing outlawed?!?) - FON router demo - whatever you want to talk about = NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] April Meeting: TONIGHT @7PM! Socialight
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TONIGHT! Wed, April 25th, 2007 at 7:00pm Please note earlier starting time for meeting. Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. Socialight by Dan Melinger - Socialight background - Primer on location-based services - How people can and are using Socialight for their own projects and content http://socialight.com Dan Melinger is a communications theorist and technologist currently living in New York City. He has worked as a consultant to companies developing and implementing wireless data technologies and has experience in television production. Dan holds an Master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program ITP at New York University and a BA in Communications from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. His latest research interests involve exploring techniques for media distribution based on social networks. = NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. = -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] April Meeting: Tomorrow, Wed. April 25th, @7PM: Socialight
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TOMORROW! Wed, April 25th, 2007 at 7:00pm Please note earlier starting time for meeting. Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. Socialight by Dan Melinger http://socialight.com Dan Melinger is a communications theorist and technologist currently living in New York City. He has worked as a consultant to companies developing and implementing wireless data technologies and has experience in television production. Dan holds an Master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program ITP at New York University and a BA in Communications from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania. His latest research interests involve exploring techniques for media distribution based on social networks. = NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. = -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TONIGHT!! March Meeting: WiFi Hotspot Survey Results
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TONIGHT!! Wed, March 28th, 2007 at 7:00pm Please note earlier starting time for meeting. Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. Laura Forlano will present preliminary results from the WiFi? hotspot survey conducted in partnership with NYCwireless. Her findings may surprise you - don't miss it!! NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TOMORROW!! March Meeting: WiFi Hotspot Survey Results
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TOMORROW Wed, March 28th, 2007 at 7:00pm Please note earlier starting time for meeting. Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. Laura Forlano will present preliminary results from the WiFi? hotspot survey conducted in partnership with NYCwireless. Her findings may surprise you - don't miss it!! NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TONIGHT!! February Meeting: 802.11n Estonia
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TONIGHT!! TONIGHT!! TONIGHT!! Wed, February 28th, 2007 at 7:00pm Please note earlier starting time for meeting. Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. 802.11n: Everything you want to know (so far) but were afraid to ask! by Brian Walden Brian gives us an overview of this new standard, which is still not finalized. Brian, long-time NYCwireless member, is famous for his in-depth presentations (i.e. HDTV). This is not to be missed!! 2. Wireless in Estonia: John Heywood on his own research, gives us yet another international perspective. NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TOMORROW!! February Meeting: 802.11n Estonia
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TOMORROW!! Wed, February 28th, 2007 at 7:00pm Please note earlier starting time for meeting. Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. 802.11n: Everything you want to know (so far) but were afraid to ask! by Brian Walden Brian gives us an overview of this new standard, which is still not finalized. Brian, long-time NYCwireless member, is famous for his in-depth presentations (i.e. HDTV). This is not to be missed!! 2. Wireless in Estonia: John Heywood on his own research, gives us yet another international perspective. NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] [EMAIL PROTECTED] January Meeting: Magical Mirrors
All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! Wed, January 31, 2007 at 7:00pm ** Please note earlier starting time for meeting. Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. Daniel Michelis, a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Media and Communications Management at the University of St. Gallen, will present his Berlin-based interactive urban screen project, Magical Mirrors. http://www.magicalmirrors.de/ == NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. == NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. == -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] NYT editorial-- for net neutrality
The New York Times January 3, 2007 Editorial Protecting Internet Democracy One of the big winners in the last election may turn out to be the principle, known as net neutrality, that Internet service providers should not be able to favor some content over others. Democrats who are moving into the majority in Congress - led by Ron Wyden in the Senate and Edward Markey in the House - say they plan to fight hard to pass a net neutrality bill, and we hope that they do. It is vital to preserve the Internet's role in promoting entrepreneurship and free expression. Internet users now get access to any Web site on an equal basis. Foreign and domestic sites, big corporate home pages and little-guy blogs all show up on a user's screen in the same way when their addresses are typed into a browser. Anyone who puts up a Web page can broadcast it to the world. Cable and telephone companies are talking, however, about creating a two-tiered Internet with a fast lane and a slow lane. Companies that pay hefty fees would have their Web pages delivered to Internet users in the current speedy fashion. Companies and individuals that do not would be relegated to the slow lane. Creating these sorts of tiers would destroy the democratic quality of the Internet. Big, wealthy voices would start to overpower the smaller, poorer ones. Innovation would be threatened if start-ups and small companies could not afford the new fees. The next eBay or Google might never be born. A net neutrality law would require cable and telephone companies to continue to provide Web sites to Internet users on an equal basis. Mr. Markey, of Massachusetts, will be taking over a key subcommittee that handles Internet issues. He has promised to hold hearings to educate Congress and the public, and to reintroduce his strong net neutrality bill. Mr. Wyden, of Oregon, plans to reintroduce an equally solid bill in the Senate. Passing the legislation will not be easy. The cable and telephone companies have fought net neutrality with a lavishly financed and misleading lobbying campaign, because they stand to gain an enormous windfall. But there is growing support from individuals and groups across the political spectrum, from MoveOn.org to the Gun Owners of America, who worry about what will happen to their free speech if Internet service providers are allowed to pick and choose the traffic they carry. In the last week, there was a limited but important victory for net neutrality. As a condition of approving the ATT-BellSouth merger, the Federal Communications Commission required ATT to guarantee net neutrality on its broadband service for the next two years. The commission was right to extract this concession, but it should not be necessary to negotiate separate deals like this one. On the information superhighway, net neutrality should be a basic rule of the road. -- === Joe Plotkin Broadband/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 phone: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] connectivity: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VoIP info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] December Meeting: next Wed. 12/27: Year End Roundup
***NYCwireless December Meeting* All are invited - please re-post everywhere! Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 at 7:00pm (Please note earlier starting time for meeting) Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. Year in Review and 2007 Preview: NYCw Executive Director Dana Spiegel will discuss NYCw's tremendous accomplishments in 2006, and plans for an even bigger 2007. 2. Year End Celebration: the beer is on us! (and thats not a typo) NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] December Meeting: next Wed. 12/27: Year End Roundup
***NYCwireless December Meeting* All are invited - please re-post everywhere! Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 at 7:00pm (Please note earlier starting time for meeting) Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. Year in Review and 2007 Preview: NYCw Executive Director Dana Spiegel will discuss NYCw's tremendous accomplishments in 2006, and plans for an even bigger 2007. 2. Year End Celebration: the beer is on us! (and thats not a typo) NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] November Meeting: *Next* Wed, Nov. 29th, 7pm sharp
NYCWireless November Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! *Next* Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 at 7:00pm sharp! -- Please note earlier starting time for meeting Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. Berlin Wireless: Alex Toland and Ulf Kypke from Berlin's Freifunk and wlanhain community wireless groups will talk about a new project for an all-in-one wind and solar-powered hotspot/panoramic camera sculpture for a community-planned park in Berlin's Friedrichshain neighborhood. 2. Connecting non-profits: Marc Baizman, a Project Manager at the technology assistance provider NPower, will speak about the technology needs of the non-profit sector. The meeting will be streamed live to Berlin where they are hosting a simultaneous Freifunk community wireless meeting. * * * Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving from NYCwireless! * * * NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Tomorrow night-- Moyers on America The Net at Risk
All- Net Neutrality has been discussed vehemently and extensively on this list, so I urge everyone to watch Bill Moyer's in-depth examination of this subject. It airs on Channel 13 tomorrow night Wed Oct 18th 9pm. It repeats 1:30am Saturday, October 21st (aka late Fri. night) and 2:00pm Sunday, October 22nd. Set your Tivos accordingly. Additionally, some on this list have challenged the efficacy of the substantial work Bruce Kushnick and TeleTruth have done over the years. Bill Moyer's team apparently disagrees, as they have made the editorial decision to feature Kushnick's views and research. Although I have not yet seen this episode, I believe this show will begin a long overdue, serious journalistic examination of the issues of network access and market power. Enjoy. Joe Teletruth News Alert. Moyers on America Presents The Net at Risk. PBS, (check local listings) Wednesday, October 18, 2006, 9PM, EDT Teletruth's Bruce Kushnick and Tom Allibone are featured in The New Digital Divide segment. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/neutrality.html Moyers on America presents a new, serious investigative analysis of the future of broadband, the Net and media --- from municipalities trying to Wifi or rewire their cities, to the large phone companies who claim that they 'own-the net' or large media concerns who have the power to take control of the information and stories you see and hear. The program has been divided into four segments. THE NET AT RISK The debate is hot, the language heady, the metaphors many. Op-ed pages alternately bemoan The End of the Internet or curse Net Neutrality Nonsense. THE NEW DIGITAL DIVIDE http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/usworld.html Teletruth is featured. Check out the video --- In Korea and Japan customers are getting 100 Mbps services in both directions for about $40 bucks - (That's 100 times faster than America's DSL services.) America's screwed, says Bruce Kushnick, a telecom analyst. I mean, we basically are becoming technologically deficient. We're close to the dinosaurs compared to what these other countries are going to be developing in the next couple years. Other sections include: COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/community.html The Net @ Risk takes viewers to Lafayette, Louisiana, where residents and officials took on their phone company, BellSouth, and their cable company, Cox Communications, and built their own high-speed fiber network after the firms refused to bring true broadband connections to their community. BIG AND BIGGER MEDIA http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/bigger.html In 1984 the number of companies owning a controlling interest in America's media was 50 - today that number is six. Critics of media consolidation say it has led to fewer and fewer perspectives being presented -- and a marked decrease in local news coverage. Teletruth believes America's digital future is at stake, not to mention the future of the U.S. economy. We are pleased to be part of this important investigative report. More: Read Teletruth's series for Harvard's Nieman Watchdog project on telecommunications, the Internet, wireless and broadband. http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewContributorbioid=130 For more about Teletruth http://www.teletruth.org -- === Joe Plotkin Broadband/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 phone: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] connectivity: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VoIP info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Fwd: MAP Statement on FCC White Spaces Action
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:16:01 -0400 Sender: Telecom Regulation the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Harold Feld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MAP Statement on FCC White Spaces Action To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Media Access Project Senior Vice President Harold Feld had the following statement on the FCC's release of a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on unlicensed use of the broadcast white spaces. Docket No. 04-186: Today's FCC action is another step forward in freeing more public spectrum for productive public use. The FCC has wisely decided to rely on empirical testing rather than the doomsday predictions broadcasters practicing the spectrum equivalent of NIMBY (not in my back yard). Commissioner Adelstien has once again proven himself a champion for rural broadband and affordable wireless everywhere through his heroic efforts to keep as much spectrum as possible on the table until testing is complete. Given the tremendous need for access to spectrum throughout America -- in rural, suburban, and urban environments -- it is critical that the Commission foreclose use of white spaces only where engineering tests prove there is a genuine risk of harmful interference. Finally, MAP particularly applauds the separate statement by Commissioner Copps strongly endorsing unlicensed use of the broadcast white spaces. As Commissioner Copps observed, these are the people's airwaves, to be used in direct service of the public interest (emphasis in original). The FCC should reject calls to encumber this valuable spectrum with needless licensing requirements. Trying to license such non-contiguous Swiss cheese spectrum can only drive up costs and delay the entry of much needed wireless services. -- === Joe Plotkin Broadband/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 phone: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] connectivity: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VoIP info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Fwd: WSJ Editorial: Wi-Fi to the Max
For an alternative point of view, check out this terrific piece by Harold Feld -- who starts from the premise that auctions are a really bad way to distribute access rights to spectrum.: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:30:44 -0400 Sender: Telecom Regulation the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Harold Feld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I handicap tomorrow's spectrum auction To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wetmachine.com/totsf/item/561 Harold -- Joe At 10:28 AM -0400 8/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WSJ has a right-leaning editorial board and the snark in this article shows it. They're talking about how Sprint taking up Wimax negates the whole idea of net neutrality or Internet regulation. MY question is: will WiMax really enable fair competition? Or will it just make the duopoly into an oligopoly? What does WiMax really represent? Rob --- From the Wall Street Journal -- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115508153993630488.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TONIGHT! -- July Meeting: FON pilot: router giveaway
http://nycwireless.net/articles NYCwireless July Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TONIGHT!! TONIGHT!! TONIGHT!! Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. Andrew Rasiej/FON (http://en.fon.com/info/whos_behind.php#section4) an organizing event for Project Wifi4NY. Starting next week FON will start to distribute free routers in the East Village as a pilot. The idea is to determine how many routers are needed on a given block, determine what technical issues we have to hurdle, and also see how people respond to the offer. Additionally discover what skills people have and what they are willing to do as volunteers. The main goal of Wednesday's event though is to get feedback from people and gauge their interest in the bigger city wide project. 2. NYCwireless round-up: a. New projects including major event and research project b. political agenda including spectrum policy, net neutrality === NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] BusinessWeek: WiFi Eyes the Empty Airwaves
WiFi Eyes the Empty Airwaves The white space-unused spectrum between TV channels-could be key to new wireless services, but big telcos say it's a threat read complete article here: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_31/b3995073.htm Part of tonights discussion -- what should NYCwireless be doing to support New America in this effort to get unlicensed use of low-frequency spectrum? - Joe -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] July Meeting-- this Wed. 7/26: FON pilot: router giveaway
http://nycwireless.net/articles NYCwireless July Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! This Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. Andrew Rasiej/FON (http://en.fon.com/info/whos_behind.php#section4) an organizing event for Project Wifi4NY. Starting next week FON will start to distribute free routers in the East Village as a pilot. The idea is to determine how many routers are needed on a given block, determine what technical issues we have to hurdle, and also see how people respond to the offer. Additionally discover what skills people have and what they are willing to do as volunteers. The main goal of Wednesday's event though is to get feedback from people and gauge their interest in the bigger city wide project. 2. NYCwireless round-up: a. New projects including major event and research project b. political agenda including spectrum policy, net neutrality === NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] NYT: After Delays, Wireless Web Comes to Parks
to showcase these new kinds of applications, he said. Nokia is marketing several portable devices - essentially scaled-down computers for casual Internet browsing - that can tap into Wi-Fi hot spots. (The most popular smart phones, including most models of the BlackBerry and the Palm Treo, rely on cellphone networks.) Mr. Brown and Mr. van de Klashorst would not discuss the terms of the sponsorship arrangement, saying it was confidential. Robert L. Garafola, the deputy commissioner for management and budget at the parks department, said that Wi-Fi Salon still needed final approval for the eight sites in Central Park from the Central Park Conservancy, the nonprofit group that manages the park under a long-term contract that was renewed in April for another eight years. Mr. Garafola said he was optimistic about the project after the repeated delays. I'm feeling pretty good, but we're going to watch it very closely and hold them to the schedule, he said. Wi-Fi Salon and Nokia said they planned an extensive marketing campaign, but declined to discuss specifics. Warner Johnston, a parks department spokesman, said he believed that if the system worked, word of mouth would be powerful enough. I have no question in my mind that once this is active in Central Park, word is going to spread like wildfire, he said. Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 phone: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VoIP info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TOMORROW! June Monthly Meeting: Parks 2006
NYCwireless June Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TOMORROW NIGHT! Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: NYCwireless Parks 2006 -- a round-up of our various projects in process and completed, including: Brooklyn Bridge Park Stuyvesant Cove Park Madison Square Park Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Also updates on SuperNode, FON, lots more . . . === NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TONIGHT! Monthly Meeting: Plan OneWebDay!
http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=67 NYCwireless May Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TONIGHT! Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. OneWebDay - Susan Crawford will talk about OneWebDay. A short presentation to be followed by 30 minutes for brainstorming. We'd like to generate ideas about what the wireless community and other media/technology groups in New York might plan as part of OneWebDay. Attendees are encouraged to read the FAQ beforehand: http://www.onewebday.org/?page_id=18 2. NYCwireless Parks 2006 - Dana Spiegel will report on his recent City Council testimony, and give status report on NYCw Parks deployments. === OneWebDay is one day a year when we all - everyone around the physical globe - can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities. It is celebrated on September 22 every year, starting in 2006. Groups and individuals all around the world are coming up with their own ways of celebrating the Web on OneWebDay. We hope the celebrations will affirm Web values in ways that actually advance those values (connection, creativity, collaboration!). This is going to be a planning party that asks the question: What are you going to do for OneWebDay? === NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TOMORROW night! Monthly Meeting: Plan OneWebDay!
http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=67 NYCwireless May Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TOMORROW! Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (lobby sign-in required) Agenda: 1. OneWebDay - Susan Crawford will talk about OneWebDay. A short presentation to be followed by 30 minutes for brainstorming. We'd like to generate ideas about what the wireless community and other media/technology groups in New York might plan as part of OneWebDay? Attendees are encouraged to read the FAQ beforehand: http://www.onewebday.org/?page_id=18 2. NYCwireless Parks 2006 - Dana Spiegel will report on his recent City Council testimony, and give status report on NYCw Parks deployments. === OneWebDay is one day a year when we all - everyone around the physical globe - can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities. It is celebrated on September 22 every year, starting in 2006. Groups and individuals all around the world are coming up with their own ways of celebrating the Web on OneWebDay?. We hope the celebrations will affirm Web values in ways that actually advance those values (connection, creativity, collaboration!). This is going to be a planning party that asks the question: What are you going to do for OneWebDay? === NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Monthly Meeting Wed. May 31st, 2006: Plan OneWebDay!
NYCwireless May Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 Agenda: 1. Susan Crawford will talk about OneWebDay A short presentation to be followed by 30 minutes for brainstorming. We'd like to generate ideas about what the wireless community and other media/technology groups in New York might plan as part of OneWebDay? 2. Molly Wright Steenson of girlwonder.com will speak about her research. === OneWebDay is one day a year when we all - everyone around the physical globe - can celebrate the Web and what it means to us as individuals, organizations, and communities. It is celebrated on September 22 every year, starting in 2006. Groups and individuals all around the world are coming up with their own ways of celebrating the Web on OneWebDay?. We hope the celebrations will affirm Web values in ways that actually advance those values (connection, creativity, collaboration!). This is going to be a planning party that asks the question: What are you going to do for OneWebDay? === NYCwireless monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of every month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TONIGHT!! April Meeting: SolarOne and Protexx
NYCwireless April Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TONIGHT!!! TONIGHT!!! TONIGHT!!! Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (Please note: Everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.) Agenda: 1. Jamie Paquette/Solar One - discusses the launch of NYC's first solar powered access point in Stuyvesant Cove Park in collaboration with NYCwireless. 2. Howard Ryan Kirby Nash/Protexx - Is wireless sniffing legal?! = Complete meeting details are here: http://nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=64 === NYCw monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] April Meeting: next Wed. April 26th - 3x the fun!!
NYCwireless February Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (Please note: Everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.) Agenda: 1. Jamie Paquette/Solar One - discusses the launch of NYC's first solar powered access point in Stuyvesant Cove Park in collaboration with NYCwireless. 2. Kirby Nash/Protexx - Is wireless sniffing legal?! 3. Report from NYC City Council hearing on topic of wireless Internet access in New York City parks earlier in the day. Dana Spiegel/NYCwireless Executive Director will also review his testimony on behalf of NYCw. = Complete meeting details are here: http://nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=64 === NYCw monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] April Meeting: next Wed. April 26th - 3x the fun!!
NYCwireless April Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (Please note: Everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.) Agenda: 1. Jamie Paquette/Solar One - discusses the launch of NYC's first solar powered access point in Stuyvesant Cove Park in collaboration with NYCwireless. 2. Kirby Nash/Protexx - Is wireless sniffing legal?! 3. Report from NYC City Council hearing on topic of wireless Internet access in New York City parks earlier in the day. Dana Spiegel/NYCwireless Executive Director will also review his testimony on behalf of NYCw. = Complete meeting details are here: http://nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=64 === NYCw monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Fwd: Senate Hearing Today on Spectrum Reform
Original Message Subject: [Openspectrum] US Senate hearing today on spectrum reform and license exempt use of TV band Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:16:53 +0100 From: Robert Horvitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Open Spectrum International To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.volweb.cz/horvitz/os-info/news-mar06-009.html US Senate hearing today on wireless issues and spectrum reform The Commerce Committee of the US Senate will hold hearings today (14 March) on wireless issues and spectrum reform. Starting at 10 a.m. East Coast Time (1500 GMT), video coverage of the hearings will be streamed live at http://commerce.senate.gov/live.ram. For those who can attend the hearings in person, they will be in Room 106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, which occupies the block bounded by Constitution Avenue, Second Street, First Street, and C Street in Washington, DC (Northeast). Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens recently introduced legislation (S.2332: The American Broadband for Communities Act of 2006) to allow manufacturers to design unlicensed devices to be operated in the broadcast spectrum not being used by broadcasters... [and it] also directs the Federal Communications Commission [to] craft technical requirements for unlicensed devices in the broadcast band that would protect broadcast stations... [quoted from the news release announcing the bill] This legislation, and a similar bill introduced by Senators George Allen and John Kerry (S.2327: The Wireless Innovation Act of 2006), are likely to be the hearing's main focus. The announced witnesses are: * Ms. Catherine W. Seidel - Acting Chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau * Mr. John M. R. Kneuer - Acting Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce * Ms. JayEtta Hecker - Director of the Physical Infrastructure Team, US Government Accountability Office * Mr. Thomas F. Walsh - President of the Board, Rural Cellular Association * Dr. Kevin Kahn - Director of the Communications Technology Lab, Intel Corporation * Mr. Robert W. Hubbard - Secretary and Treasurer, Association for Maximum Service Television * Mr. Thomas J. Sugrue - Vice President of Government Affairs, T-Mobile USA, Inc. * Ms. Jeannine Kenney - Senior Policy Advisor, Consumer Union * Mr. Lawrence J. White - Co-Chair of the Spectrum Policy Working Group, The Digital Age Communications Act Project, Progress Freedom Foundation Each witness' written testimony should be available online soon - click on their name above to read their statement. For more information, see http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=1709 BOB Robert Horvitz Open Spectrum Foundation email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: robert_horvitz mob:+420 775024705 tel:+420 222726807 http://www.openspectrum.info/ ___ Openspectrum mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.media.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/openspectrum -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net Note-- new address: 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] USA Today cites Kushnick's ebook in merger article
just about as much priority as McDonald's gives to health food. None of this discounts the power of ATT or Verizon at this moment. The majority of people still make calls on old-fashioned land lines and the newcomers are still, well, newcomers. While there's a lot of technology out there, the amount of actual, effective competition is much less, says Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of activist group People for Internet Responsibility, which is against the ATT-BellSouth merger. But the not-very-distant future threatens to be a lot more harsh for ATT. Apparently, that future becomes more likely if the local phone companies merge to their hearts' content. Kevin Maney has covered technology for USA TODAY since 1985. His column appears Wednesdays. Click here for an index of Technology columns. E-mail him at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Release Party Invite: Bruce Kushnick's New Ebook Expose
TELETRUTH NEWS ALERT: All are invited! Join us at: The Half King, 505 W 23rd St. at 10th Ave, NYC WHEN: this coming MONDAY, March 6th, 2006, 7PM, Celebrate the Release of Bruce Kushnick's New Ebook Expose: $200 Billion Broadband Scandal Did America pay over $200 billion for fiber optic broadband services wenever received? Is this why America is16th in the world in broadband? Are you owed $2000.00 from Verizon, SBC, BellSouth or Qwest? Get your own autographed (CD) copy Help Send Kushnick to Washington! The New York Times, Muniwireless, Good Morning Silicon Alley, Techdirt, Media Access,--- a 'sordid story' of business fraud --- damning list of indictments --- meticulously documents--- a powerful critique --- serve as a warning for the promises made by the Bells today. --- A Rant: All 406 Pages of it. Monday, March 6th, 2006, 7PM The Half King 505 W 23RD ST NEW YORK, NY 10011 TEL: 212.462.4300 http://www.thehalfking.com DSLPrime, Broadband Reports, Cook, Voic.us, Sociate, NYC Wireless board member: talented, persistent, honest --- brilliantly documented this fraud --- stunning in its implications.--- Kushnick is in a long tradition of advocates like Ida Tarbell and Jane Jacobs---Anyone who wants the U.S. to thrive in this connected future should read Kushnick's book. Special Book Signing Edition ---Jeweled Boxed CD Version. Can't make it and want to make a difference: Buy the book, donate money to help send Kushnick to Washington DC. More about the Book, Donate, Online ebook Version, about the Author http://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htmhttp://www.newnetworks.com/broadbandscandals.htm Read what the Experts are Blogging About: http://200billionscandal.typepad.com/http://200billionscandal.typepad.com/ Contact; Kelly Deegan, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Kushnick, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Teletruth is a nationwide, independent customer alliance dedicated to broadband and telecommunications issues and a former member of the FCC Consumer Advisory Committee (2003-2004). http://www.teletruth.orghttp://www.teletruth.org -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TONIGHT!!! February Meeting: 3G Overview
NYCwireless February Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (Please note: Everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.) Agenda: 1. Dr. Joseph Boccuzzi, Broadcom: Overview of 3G Cellular Communications 2. 2006 membership drive 3. Workshop breakout sessions: small group discussions from novice to advanced questions 3a. SuperNode (aka WifiDog) breakout session: * review the SuperNode's OpenWRT operating system status * review the SuperNode's WifiDog software status * access the SuperNode's WifiDog traffic metrics * switch the SuperNode from Splash Page Only to a Member Login portal * upload the SuperNode's initial content = Complete meeting details are here: http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=61 = NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. = NYCw monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] February Meeting: This Wed. Feb 22nd - 3G Overview
NYCwireless February Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! This week -- Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (Please note: Everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.) Agenda: 1. Dr. Joseph Boccuzzi, Broadcom: Overview of 3G Cellular Communications 2. 2006 membership drive 3. Workshop breakout sessions: small group discussions from novice to advanced questions = Complete meeting details are here: http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=61 = NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. = NYCw monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] The End of the Internet?
Oh Alex how could you? It is one thing to be wrong on the facts, but to publicly slander an ally based upon nothing but your incorrect opinion? Thats awful. I have worked with Bruce, fighting on behalf of independent ISPs, for over 8 years. FIGHTING TO PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS -- lobbying in DC, filing with FCC, doing research proving the ISPs were harmed, suing, holding meetings, speaking at ISPcon, etc. He has done more than you have to protect ISPs and their access to the public network. Bruce is NOT financed by the anyone, let alone the CWA. Perhaps you are confused by the report Bruce published a couple of years back -- which was based upon a CWA report that documented that Vz workers were being forced by supervisors to obstruct and delay competitor installs and repairs. This report validated what many of us who used CLECs like Covad had experienced. This report HELPED bring pressure that eliminated the worst of these abuses for the past several years. Essentially, the CWA members were the whistle-blowers who felt what they were being asked to do was wrong. Yeah Bruce is nuts -- he's nuts to expect some gratitude from the people he has labored selflessly to protect. No good deed goes unpunished I guess . . . - Joe At 1:20 AM -0500 2/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Joe Plotkin wrote: Yesterday's NY Times has a column commenting on Bruce Kushnick's new book (below) -- in which Bruce documents the Baby Bell fraud. Now that the Bells have succeeded in their dream of an *unregulated monopoly* -- a wider constituency has awakened to the dangers Bruce has been fighting against for a decade. Anything Kushnick writes should be read with a bucket of salt. Not to say that he's right on many things, but there just as many things on which he's nuts. Currently he's financed by CWA, which is far more corrupt than VZ itself. -alex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net Note -- new address: 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 phone: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] The End of the Internet?
for free expression. If Americans are to succeed in designing an equitable digital destiny for themselves, they must mount an intensive opposition similar to the successful challenges to the FCC's media ownership rules in 2003. Without such a public outcry to rein in the GOP's corporate-driven agenda, it is likely that even many of the Democrats who rallied against further consolidation will be tamed by the well-funded lobbying campaigns of the powerful phone and cable industry. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.15.1/250 - Release Date: 2/3/2006 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net Note-- new address: 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] February Meeting: Wed. Feb 22nd - 3G Overview
NYCwireless February Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 (Please note: Everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.) Agenda: 1. Dr. Joseph Boccuzzi, Broadcom: Overview of 3G Cellular Communications 2. 2006 membership drive 3. Workshop breakout sessions: small group discussions from novice to advanced questions = Complete meeting details are here: http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=61 = NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. = NYCw monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. = -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TONIGHT!! NYCwireless January Meeting - Wed. Jan. 25th: VOIP over Wifi Design
NYCwireless January Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! TONIGHT! Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 [Please note: Everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.] Agenda: 1. Dustin Goodwin: Designing Wifi Network for VOIP So you think you can just buy a couple of Wifi VOIP phones and start using them on your office network? Well unfortunately it's not that easy. Wifi networks designed for data are probably not well enough engineered to handle VOIP phones with a high degree of quality. If you want to learn about design factors for VOIP over WiFi, don't miss this presentation. 2. tba 3. Workshop breakout sessions: small group discussions from novice to advanced questions === Dustin Goodwin, VOIP expert and NYCwireless Board member - Dustin has shared his expertise many times at NYCw meetings, his presentations are always informative, and not to be missed. Dustin's Bio: http://nycwireless.net/tiki-index.php?page=About (scroll down to Board of Directors) === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. NYCw monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net Note-- new address: 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] NYCwireless January Meeting - TOMORROW Wed, Jan. 25th: VOIP over Wifi Design
NYCwireless January Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! TOMORROW NIGHT! Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 [Please note: Everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.] Agenda: 1. Dustin Goodwin: Designing Wifi Network for VOIP So you think you can just buy a couple of Wifi VOIP phones and start using them on your office network? Well unfortunately it's not that easy. Wifi networks designed for data are probably not well enough engineered to handle VOIP phones with a high degree of quality. If you want to learn about design factors for VOIP over WiFi, don't miss this presentation. 2. tba 3. Workshop breakout sessions: small group discussions from novice to advanced questions === Dustin Goodwin, VOIP expert and NYCwireless Board member - Dustin has shared his expertise many times at NYCw meetings, his presentations are always informative, and not to be missed. Dustin's Bio: http://nycwireless.net/tiki-index.php?page=About (scroll down to Board of Directors) === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. NYCw monthly meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month. They are free, and open to all, RSVP not required. === -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net Note-- new address: 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] DSL
'cept for IDSL which will run to 23k feet (but it is horribly slow - 144k). Joe At 5:21 PM -0500 1/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the longest DSL run that you have ever provisioned, anyone? VZ limit is 18000 for any kind of DSL. Above that, they won't do it. -alex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net Note -- new address: 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 phone: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Reminder-TONITE at 7:15pm!! Andrew Rasiej at NYCwireless November Meeting
TONITE!! -- at 7:15pm (Wednesday, November 30th, 2005) NYCwireless November Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 [Please note: Bway.net's offices are still under construction -- we apologize in advance for our appearance. Also, everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.] === Agenda: 1. General update on projects by Board members 2. Andrew Rasiej: The Future of Public Wifi -- As a recent candidate for NYC Public Advocate office, Andrew made free public wifi a central theme of his Connecting NYC campaign. He will discuss the obstacles and opportunities for public access to wireless infrastructure -- followed by an extended QA session. 3. Workshop breakout sessions: small group discussions from novice to advanced questions === More about Andrew Rasiej: Although he didn't win, Andrew Rasiej's campaign was successful in bringing tremendous attention to the issue of public wireless infrastructure, including this glowing column by Tom Friedman in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/opinion/03friedman.html?ex=1280721600en=18d4a8ea014f2aaeei=5088partner=rssnytemc=rss Andrew Rasiej (pronounced rah-SHAY) is a community activist and successful business leader who has spent much of his life connecting people, turning ideas into action, solving problems, and making change. In other words, he has long been an advocate for New York and New Yorkers. Andrew Rasiej's bio: http://www.advocatesforrasiej.com/bio === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] NYCwireless November Meeting: Andrew Rasiej!! this Wed. Nov. 30th
NYCwireless November Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! This Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 at 7:15pm Bway.net 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 [Please note: Bway.net's offices are still under construction -- we apologize in advance for our appearance. Also, everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.] === Agenda: 1. General update on projects by Board members 2. Andrew Rasiej: The Future of Public Wifi -- As a recent candidate for NYC Public Advocate office, Andrew made free public wifi a central theme of his Connecting NYC campaign. He will discuss the obstacles and opportunities for public access to wireless infrastructure -- followed by an extended QA session. 3. Workshop breakout sessions: small group discussions from novice to advanced questions === More about Andrew Rasiej: Although he didn't win, Andrew Rasiej's campaign was successful in bringing tremendous attention to the issue of public wireless infrastructure, including this glowing column by Tom Friedman in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/opinion/03friedman.html?ex=1280721600en=18d4a8ea014f2aaeei=5088partner=rssnytemc=rss Andrew Rasiej (pronounced rah-SHAY) is a community activist and successful business leader who has spent much of his life connecting people, turning ideas into action, solving problems, and making change. In other words, he has long been an advocate for New York and New Yorkers. Andrew Rasiej's bio: http://www.advocatesforrasiej.com/bio === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Fwd: SBC's CEO: This Man Must Be Stopped
The Biggest Threat to the Internet By David Coursey November 3, 2005 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1881338,00.asp an excerpt: No, Mr. Whitacre, Google, Yahoo, MSN, Vonage, and the whole rest of the Internet isn't nuts, you are. Worse, you're the nut who is running our country's largest telecom provider. A truly great, great piece!! Joe -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net Note -- new address: 568 Broadway Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] reminder -- TONIGHT! NYCwireless October Meeting
Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! Tonight! NYCwireless October Meeting Announcement Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 at 7:15pm Bway.net - in new home (finally!): 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 [Please note: Bway.net's offices are still under construction -- we apologize in advance for our appearance. Also, everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.] === Agenda: 1. Cybermoor: Community Wireless Broadband Network from Rural Northern England; presentation by Daniel Heery 2. Laura Forlano will brief us on World Summit for a Free Information Infrastructure conference held earlier this month in London. 3. WifiDog: Rob Kelley will distribute WifiDogs to anyone who brings us a Linksys WRT54G--version 4 or earlier -- [please let Rob know ahead of time if you're bringing one [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3b. Workshops: small group discussions from novice to advanced questions === Cybermoor: presentation by Daniel Heery, Project Manager for Cybermoor. Cybermoor is run as a Community Co-operative and is a non-profit making community enterprise. Daniel Heery will discuss how this was accomplished. More [Moor?] details: http://www.cybermoor.org/ http://www.seeonline2.net/broadband/CommunitySelfHelp/CaseStudies/AlstonCybermoor/ === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] NYCwireless October Meeting: This Wed. Oct. 26th at 7:15pm
NYCwireless October Meeting Announcement All are invited - please re-post everywhere! This Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 at 7:15pm Bway.net - in new home (finally!): 568 Broadway at Prince St, NE corner Suite 404 New York, NY 10012 [Please note: Bway.net's offices are still under construction -- we apologize in advance for our appearance. Also, everybody will need to sign-in in the lobby.] === Agenda: 1. Cybermoor: Community Wireless Broadband Network from Rural Northern England; presentation by Daniel Heery 2. Laura Forlano will brief us on World Summit for a Free Information Infrastructure conference held earlier this month in London. 3. WifiDog: Rob Kelley will distribute WifiDogs to anyone who brings us a Linksys WRT54G--version 4 or earlier -- [please let Rob know ahead of time if you're bringing one [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3b. Workshops: small group discussions from novice to advanced questions === Cybermoor: presentation by Daniel Heery, Project Manager for Cybermoor. Cybermoor is run as a Community Co-operative and is a non-profit making community enterprise. Daniel Heery will discuss how this was accomplished. More [Moor?] details: http://www.cybermoor.org/ http://www.seeonline2.net/broadband/CommunitySelfHelp/CaseStudies/AlstonCybermoor/ === NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. === -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] LAST CHANCE!- NYCwireless Meeting TONIGHT at NYU (RSVP required!)
NYCwireless September Meeting TONIGHT!!! LAST CHANCE - must RSVP by 5pm! Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 at 7:30pm sharp NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place) Room 406 A special meeting: Everyone is invited but **space is limited** *** RSVP is required *** for building admission; please RSVP by Wed. 5pm to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Agenda: 1. Wireless to the rescue: Restoring communications in Katrina's aftermath Report By Dustin Goodwin and Terry Schmidt 2. Controlling Interference: Cognio introduces their spectrum analyzer, a tool to manage growing RF interference problems === Terry Schmidt and Dustin Goodwin have just returned from providing wireless communications networks in the areas devastated by Katrina. IP network, unlicensed wireless, and VOIP are incredibly flexible technology that can be used to deploy data and voice communication in ways not possible with traditional technology. Nowhere is this more apparent then in disaster zone where police, fire, and storm victims are cut off from the rest of the world. Learn how a Naval Post Graduate School, Cisco, Tachyon and Redline alliance along with a healthy does of motivated volunteers connected three Mississippi towns at ground Zero of Hurricane Katrina back into the communications grid in only a few days. Terry and Dustin will present their first hand accounts, including photos, as well as the technologies used and why. Terry Schmidt is a co-founder, board member, and former President of NYCwireless. Dustin Goodwin also serves on NYCwireless Board of Directors, and has led NYCwireless campaign to provide free wireless access to Community Access Houses in Manhattan, The Bronx and Brooklyn. Terry and Dustin both work for Cisco. Cognio will explain how to use their laptop spectrum analyzer to troubleshoot everyday RF problems. Spectrum Analyzers have the ability to view all RF activity not just 802.11. Cordless phone shutting down your Wifi network? You'll never be able to figure out unless it's your phone or you have a tool like Cognio's. Great for people looking to learn more about diagnostic tools used to troubleshoot wireless network problems. Special thanks to NYU ITP for graciously hosting this month's NYCwireless meeting. Thanks to Red Burns, George Agudow and Nancy Lewis. - NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Reminder-TOMORROW!- NYCwireless Meeting at NYU (RSVP required!)
NYCwireless September Meeting TOMORROW-- Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 at 7:30pm sharp NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place) Room 406 A special meeting: Everyone is invited but **space is limited** *** RSVP is required *** for building admission; please RSVP by Wed. 5pm to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Agenda: 1. Wireless to the rescue: Restoring communications in Katrina's aftermath Report By Dustin Goodwin and Terry Schmidt 2. Controlling Interference: Cognio introduces their spectrum analyzer, a tool to manage growing RF interference problems === Terry Schmidt and Dustin Goodwin have just returned from providing wireless communications networks in the areas devastated by Katrina. IP network, unlicensed wireless, and VOIP are incredibly flexible technology that can be used to deploy data and voice communication in ways not possible with traditional technology. Nowhere is this more apparent then in disaster zone where police, fire, and storm victims are cut off from the rest of the world. Learn how a Naval Post Graduate School, Cisco, Tachyon and Redline alliance along with a healthy does of motivated volunteers connected three Mississippi towns at ground Zero of Hurricane Katrina back into the communications grid in only a few days. Terry and Dustin will present their first hand accounts, including photos, as well as the technologies used and why. Terry Schmidt is a co-founder, board member, and former President of NYCwireless. Dustin Goodwin also serves on NYCwireless Board of Directors, and has led NYCwireless campaign to provide free wireless access to Community Access Houses in Manhattan, The Bronx and Brooklyn. Terry and Dustin both work for Cisco. Cognio will explain how to use their laptop spectrum analyzer to troubleshoot everyday RF problems. Spectrum Analyzers have the ability to view all RF activity not just 802.11. Cordless phone shutting down your Wifi network? You'll never be able to figure out unless it's your phone or you have a tool like Cognio's. Great for people looking to learn more about diagnostic tools used to troubleshoot wireless network problems. Special thanks to NYU ITP for graciously hosting this month's NYCwireless meeting. Thanks to Red Burns, George Agudow and Nancy Lewis. - NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] NYCwireless September Meeting at NYU - this Wed. Sept 28th, 7:30PM
NYCwireless September Meeting Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 at 7:30pm sharp NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place) Room 406 A special meeting: Everyone is invited but **space is limited** *** RSVP is required *** for building admission; please RSVP by Wed. 5pm to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Agenda: 1. Wireless to the rescue: Restoring communications in Katrina's aftermath Report By Dustin Goodwin and Terry Schmidt 2. Controlling Interference: Cognio introduces their spectrum analyzer, a tool to manage growing RF interference problems === Terry Schmidt and Dustin Goodwin have just returned from providing wireless communications networks in the areas devastated by Katrina. IP network, unlicensed wireless, and VOIP are incredibly flexible technology that can be used to deploy data and voice communication in ways not possible with traditional technology. Nowhere is this more apparent then in disaster zone where police, fire, and storm victims are cut off from the rest of the world. Learn how a Naval Post Graduate School, Cisco, Tachyon and Redline alliance along with a healthy does of motivated volunteers connected three Mississippi towns at ground Zero of Hurricane Katrina back into the communications grid in only a few days. Terry and Dustin will present their first hand accounts, including photos, as well as the technologies used and why. Terry Schmidt is a co-founder, board member, and former President of NYCwireless. Dustin Goodwin also serves on NYCwireless Board of Directors, and has led NYCwireless campaign to provide free wireless access to Community Access Houses in Manhattan, The Bronx and Brooklyn. Terry and Dustin both work for Cisco. Cognio will explain how to use their laptop spectrum analyzer to troubleshoot everyday RF problems. Spectrum Analyzers have the ability to view all RF activity not just 802.11. Cordless phone shutting down your Wifi network? You'll never be able to figure out unless it's your phone or you have a tool like Cognio's. Great for people looking to learn more about diagnostic tools used to troubleshoot wireless network problems. Special thanks to NYU ITP for graciously hosting this month's NYCwireless meeting. Thanks to Red Burns, George Agudow and Nancy Lewis. - NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 web: http://NYCwireless.net NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] REMINDER-- TONIGHT!! NYCwireless June Meeting - Connected Neighborhoods
NYCwireless June Meeting When: TONIGHT!!! Wed. June 29th, 2005 at 7:15 PM Where: Bway.net, 459 Broadway at Grand St., 2nd Floor. http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=25 === This is an especially important meeting. Please spread the word -- post this notice to all interested friends and related lists. === Agenda: 1. NYCwireless Connected Neighborhoods by Dana Spiegel Joe Plotkin 2. WifiDog demo: a tool for managing wireless networks, by Rob Kelley (and friends) 3. Wirelesslondon: A software toolkit by Jo Walsh (no, not that Joe Walsh) 4. Breakout sessions: small group discussions follow the presentations, from Novice to Advanced. Announcing: NYCwireless Connected Neighborhood Initiative Presentation by Dana Spiegel (Executive Director) and Joe Plotkin (Board member) We will present NYCwireless' plans to help under-served communities by building Open Community Networks. Expanding on the success of the three Community Access projects over the last 2 years, this will be a much more ambitious effort, and require substantial financial support thru donations. The NYCwireless Connected Neighborhood initiative will serve to demonstrate that we all benefit when all citizens are connected. Consequently, we intend Connected Neighborhoods to act as a model and catalyst for widespread participation by government, community groups and citizens of all ages. NYCwireless will introduce our Inaugural Open Community Network, and outline the deployment plans as well as the tools and training that will be part of this project. Topics covered will include: Technology choices Site survey Installation Training Fund-raising Volunteers Timetable Jo Walsh: http://map.wirelesslondon.info/ is the thing we've just built which has wifidog-client support and provides a fair bit to look at... http://mappinghacks.com/ has a pile of links to the geospatial oriented stuff we've done lately Rob Kelley: A chance to review WiFiDog in action--client and server--and then test out creating your own WiFiDog hotspot. There's a five minute demo and then a working session after the presentations. - NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] NYCwireless Meeting - this Wed, June 29th at Bway.net
NYCwireless June Meeting When: Wed. June 29th, 2005 at 7:15 PM Where: Bway.net, 459 Broadway at Grand St., 2nd Floor. http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=25 === This is an especially important meeting. Please spread the word -- post this notice to all interested friends and related lists. === Agenda: 1. NYCwireless Connected Neighborhoods by Dana Spiegel Joe Plotkin 2. WifiDog demo: a tool for managing wireless networks, by Rob Kelley (and friends) 3. Wirelesslondon: A software toolkit by Jo Walsh (no, not that Joe Walsh) 4. Breakout sessions: small group discussions follow the presentations, from Novice to Advanced. Announcing: NYCwireless Connected Neighborhood Initiative Presentation by Dana Spiegel (Executive Director) and Joe Plotkin (Board member) We will present NYCwireless' plans to help under-served communities by building Open Community Networks. Expanding on the success of the three Community Access projects over the last 2 years, this will be a much more ambitious effort, and require substantial financial support thru donations. The NYCwireless Connected Neighborhood initiative will serve to demonstrate that we all benefit when all citizens are connected. Consequently, we intend Connected Neighborhoods to act as a model and catalyst for widespread participation by government, community groups and citizens of all ages. NYCwireless will introduce our Inaugural Open Community Network, and outline the deployment plans as well as the tools and training that will be part of this project. Topics covered will include: Technology choices Site survey Installation Training Fund-raising Volunteers Timetable NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks. -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] follow-up to HDTV presentation: 2 timely news items
USA Today on DTV transition http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20050526/3b_digital_26.art.htmhttp://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20050526/3b_digital_26.art.htm Experts say no quick DTV legislation http://www.njtelecomupdate.com/lenya/telco/live/tb-HWJR1116966584821.htmlhttp://www.njtelecomupdate.com/lenya/telco/live/tb-HWJR1116966584821.html -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] 3 policy conferences at CITI/Columbia University
CITI (Columbia Institute for Tele-Information) has graciously offered NYCwireless members who lack a corporate sponsor may attend at the non-profit rate. I highly recommend CITI events if you are interested in the topic -- always informative, high-level discussions. Similar to the intelligent discourse on this list. See you there. Joe http://www.citi.columbia.edu/ IPTV.2: The Second Generation of TV Over The Broadband Internet - co-sponsored by the Marconi Foundation and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Telecom Law Committee Speakers include: Eli Noam, Bob Atkinson, Andrew Odlyzko, Dave Burstein Monday, May 23, 2005 9:30am-4:30pm 142 Uris Hall Columbia University * * * 6:00pm-8:00pm Assoc. of the Bar of NYC Building 42 West 44th Street --- Reforming Telecom Markets: A Commons Approach to Organizing Private Transactions Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Especially recommended: Commons and Communities 2:30-3:15 Community Approaches to Reach Critical Mass - Eli Noam, CITI 3:15-4:00 Municipal Wi Fi - Sharon Gillette and Bill Lehr, MIT, Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development -- Are Multiple Broadband Infrastructures Sustainable?* June 23, 2005 Speakers include: Dewayne Hendricks, wireless maven -- Joe Plotkin NYCwireless Board of Directors email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 212.982.9800 NYCwireless is a non-profit organization that advocates for, and enables the growth of free, public wireless networks -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] South Street Seaport Node Still Up?
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. -- Joe At 1:33 PM -0400 5/17/05, Yury Gitman wrote: Hi All, Anyone know if the South Street Seaport node is still up? I used it last summer, or maybe even longer ago. But a friend needs access at the port for an event later this week and says there is no access there. Anyone know the story with that node? many thanks, Yury G. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Fwd: Last Reminder: ITP Spring Show - May 10-11
Last reminder for ITP's Spring Show 2005! ITP Spring Show 2005 Tuesday, May 10 from 5 to 9pm Wednesday, May 11 from 5 to 9pm A two-day explosion of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP. http://itp.nyu.edu/show An oversized Greenwich Village loft houses the computer labs, rotating exhibitions, and production workshops that are ITP -- the Interactive Telecommunications Program. Founded in 1979 as the first graduate education program in alternative media, ITP has grown into a living community of technologists, theorists, engineers, designers, and artists uniquely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of interactivity in the real and digital worlds. A hands-on approach to experimentation, production and risk-taking make this hi-tech fun house a creative home not only to its 230 students, but also to an extended network of the technology industry's most daring and prolific practitioners. Interactive Telecommunications Program Tisch School of the Arts New York University 721 Broadway, 4th Floor South New York NY 10003 Take the left elevators to the 4th Floor These events are free and open to the public No need to RSVP For questions: 212-998-1880 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://itp.nyu.edu/show ** Note: One of the show projects (the Quote-O-Matic) relies on scanning bar codes from everyday household products, visitors are encouraged to bring non-perishable canned food -- both to help demonstrate the project, and also to help feed New York's homeless. Any items brought to the show will be donated to local soup kitchens. -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] DSL Prime: Verizon Killing WiFi Wants people
Sorry for the delayed reply, I was oot this weekend. Lemme try to clarify. I think, open systems generally have proven to be a catalyst for innovation, participation and value creation, as the Internet being the foremost example. So I dont think you'll find much disagreement -- the principle of openness is better for society overall. Now Im a believer in capitalism -- so if a private enterprise invests in building a network, under normal market conditions, then they are entitled to pursue a closed network strategy if they chose, since it is their asset. Examples here might include Sprint PCS or even FedEX -- neither has any public obligation to openness or sharing. But I believe the telco and cable infrastructures should be open to all provider and this should be LEGALLY MANDATORY, primarily for historical reasons, though different for each. The Baby Bells did not build their networks under anything approaching market conditions. They built it over 100 years of regulated monopoly. Why should they now be allowed to privatize this asset (the US telecom network) while avoiding their public obligations upon which we made this deal? US citizens (Ma Bell called them ratepayers) have paid for this network -- why do these companies get to keep the title? I use an analogy to the US Interstate Highway system -- we didn't let the concrete contractor collect and keep the tolls in perpetuity, did we? We didn't let some private company control this vital strategic asset, where they could control what type of vehicles, speed, and cost? Yet thats what has happened with America's telecommunications network. I believe the FCC has stolen this from US citizens, but the issues are opaque, and the money/power of RBOCs carried the day. It is criminal. Now cable operators deployed under different franchise agreements, so their obligations varied by municipality. Nevertheless, they built these networks under agreements to offer television programming. Internet Access was not historically covered. Now I don't know but seems to me, that since many (most?) like Manhattan, included open channels for public access that at minimum, there should be similar OPEN access on Internet offerings, esp. because these services were not envisioned in original franchise agreement. The strongest argument that we have succumbed to a duopoly for broadband internet is the overwhelmingly asymmetry of their current offerings. This is based upon SUPPLIER preferences, not market needs, and unfortunately these limitations on upstream bandwidth will be a major barrier to future Internet growth and innovation. Wireless Internet, if offered by municipality, should be offered free or greatly subsidized (again, IMHO), primarily in under-served communities, as well as public spaces throughout the city. Joe At 3:27 PM -0400 4/30/05, Dustin Goodwin wrote: Joe, Is it fair to say that access to a new last mile system is generally better for your business? I hear a lot of ISPs requesting the FCC help them open the LEC DSL systems, CableCo system, etc. In fact I hear them saying the gov should spend tax dollars if it will help open these last mile systems to them. I feel there is inherent contradiction in Alex's argument. Open cable systems and open DSL systems and open powerline systems are good for ISPs but a open wireless last mile solution is bad? Please help me understand. - Dustin - Joe Plotkin wrote: Alex, first of all I want to say that I always appreciate your perspective, since I really respect what you do in this marketplace (which we both know aint easy). Even when I disagree with you, your arguments are well thought out and often bring out important points into sharper focus. In this case, you've brought out the secondary argument about the role of government and our tax dollars in a way I hadnt thought of it before. Which is: is there only one correct model for muni wifi? Unfortunately, I think you want to have it both ways, which I do find problematic. What I mean is this: if a municipality provides free wifi, then you object because, you say, they give away what you charge for (another point I'll disagree with later). However, if they put it out to the highest bidder (NYC lightpoles), which is less onerous on taxpayers, you decry it as shutting you out. I agree that the open model (Philly), allowing all ISPs to provide services is the best model. However, far more urgently, that model should be applied to all last mile RBOC wireline facilities. Especially fiber. As Im sure you know too well, the FCC has decreed otherwise, I believe to the detriment of our economy overall, and ISPs specifically. That is true lock out from an essential facility and unfair in the extreme. Because we've allowed private control of public telecom infrastructure, which was built as regulated monopoly, a public trust. In contrast to the re-monopolization of the wireline first
[nycwireless] DSL Prime: Verizon Killing WiFi Wants people to buy $80 EV-DO
From the always astute Dave Burstein. Dave's key observation: This action is a very strong implicit argument for a municipal WiFi build, like Philadelphias, providing basic access to all at a small price or free. My concurrence: To encourage muni wifi (for free public internet access), I like to use an analogy to public libraries -- they allow those who cannot afford to buy books to read them. This does NOT harm bookstores thru lost sales -- in fact, it helps them by increasing the number of lifelong readers. More importantly, free public libraries also greatly benefit society overall, as they provide to those who may lack resources today, the opportunity to access tools they'll need for their future success. --- Joe Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:53:31 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dave Burstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DSL Prime Cable's 50 Meg challenge DSL Prime Verizon Killing WiFi Wants people to buy $80 EV-DO snip Verizon Killing WiFi Wants people to buy $80 EV-DO WiFi had infinite hype three years ago, but Verizon is now shutting down what had been their showcase build in New York City. Bobbi Henson explains We're shutting down the service because it didn't live up to our expectations in usage, ... It doesn't make any sense to keep a service up and running when there's no demand. WiFi demand is much higher where the deployment is wide and the price very low, like Japan. The story was buried in the last paragraph of a wireless press release, but Broadband Wireless and then DSL Reports found it. This is a dramatic reversal of Verizon's once proud plans to run WiFi across New York City and then throughout their territory. Verizon was a pioneer of that service, but pulled back because amazingly few people actually used it, despite a free password for all Verizon DSL customers. This action is a very strong implicit argument for a municipal WiFi build, like Philadelphias, providing basic access to all at a small price or free. We need a service that brings the internet to families who can't afford $34+ a month, and low costs for wireless make that a possible tool. A city can afford to wait ten years for a payback on a wireless investment, not the two or three a telco typically expects. Lower prices create a virtuous circle; the increased volume reduces the cost per home, especially on wireless. I believe Ivan's made a strategic mistake here; the best way to meet the push for municipal competition is to offer great service yourself. If Verizon Wireless were ubiquitous and affordable, the city wouldn't be considering building their own network. But it appears Verizon is abandoning the low cost wireless data market. It's the right thing for New York and other cities to connect families who cannot afford more than $10 or $15 for their daughter's internet. There's no technology reason they can't be served with EV-DO 3G, of course, but that would require dropping the price by 80%. Copyright 2005 Dave Burstein. Volume 6, #17 Issue date 4/27/05 Reply Un to be dropped, subscribe to be added. -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] DSL Prime: Verizon Killing WiFi Wants people
enjoy book you have borrowed forever. Muni Wifi would be borrowed, if the person wants to buy the book, they can buy it from you. See, you are still not getting it. a) There's no difference between borrowed wifi and bought wifi. b) There's a difference between borrowed book and bought book. c) Thus, you are not providing a free library, you are providing free lunch. Sure, providing free lunch isn't going to run McDonalds out of business, but is it a good idea? 4) More correct analogy would be cities running soup kitchens and serving food to citizens, ones who can and can't afford food alike. That would doubtless be an honorable thing, however, not something that is considered reasonable in this country. Soup kitchens DO serve food to people that can afford it as well as people that can't. Why don't people who can afford food go to soup kitchens? Since you apparently don't know: Soup kitchens are not run by the cities. They are ran by non-profits who may (and lately don't) get *part* of funding from cities to feed the hungry. Most of the funding is from voluntary donations. 5) If cities want to help deployment of wireless broadband, they should not fight the building of wireless towers. I don't think its cities that fight the building, its the citizens in those cities. The politic ans are only doing what their constituency wants. Do you think the constituency wanted Verizon to pass a bill in Pennsylvania limited what their city officials can do? (e.g. Muni Wifi if the citizens wanted it) Do you think constituency had any clue what that is? If they did have a clue, do you think they have enough of understanding to reject 'free lunch'? If tomorrow some municipality decides to provide 1000$ to each resident, do you think the residents would complain? Do you think that its a good idea? Do you think that state should be able to preempt a city from following up on a stupid idea? State powers are best excercised in preempting local opposition to building towers, not by giving *my* money to other companies so they can better compete with me. 6) If the concern is about poor people not being able to afford internet, provide monetary contribution to them, so they can buy access from anyone else. Or not buy, if the intarweb isn't their thing. But, preserve the choice of providers. There will always be a choice of providers as long as there is a profitable business for people to be in. Capitalism is about adapting to market conditions. Think of all the business opportunities there will be if you are assured of ubiquitous Wifi in a given area. There can be applications there far bigger than what you can make as an ISP. So, you are essentially saying that instead of being an ISP, I should do something else? In other words, you want to take my tax money and kill my existing business, and advising me to do something else instead? Nice. -- Alex Pilosov| DSL, Colocation, Hosting Services President | [EMAIL PROTECTED]877-PILOSOFT x601 Pilosoft, Inc. | http://www.pilosoft.com -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Verizon Offering Naked DSL (to a few...)
I wonder if Verizon can convert an existing DSL w/voice to just naked/dry DSL. I would guess so... Not yet. For now, the only way to initiate it is to port the number away. Yeah the NYT article states that new customers cannot order naked DSL -- only existing VZ DSL customers porting their number -- but only to VoIP or wireless providers. In other words, you cannot port number to a competitor for local voice on that same line (UNE-P or resale for you telecom geeks). BTW -- here the link to the story as it appears in NYT print version: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/19/technology/19phone.html --- Joe -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Verizon Offering Naked DSL (to a few...)
Then the NYTimes is wrong. I look forward to your letter to the editor -- as well as their correction. Joe At 2:53 PM -0400 4/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Joe Plotkin wrote: Yeah the NYT article states that new customers cannot order naked DSL -- only existing VZ DSL customers porting their number -- but only to VoIP or wireless providers. In other words, you cannot port number to a competitor for local voice on that same line (UNE-P or resale for you telecom geeks). Yes you can. -alex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway 2nd Floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] UPDATE-- Speaker added: Monthly Meeting Wed Feb 23 - The Fight for Wireless Within Municipalities
= TOMORROW NIGHT!!! = PLEASE RE-POST THIS ANNOUNCEMENT FREELY! == Monthly NYCwireless Meeting Date / Time: Wednesday, February 23th @ 7:15pm Meeting Cost: Free! Agenda (times are approximate): 7:00 Networking - old fashion way via verbal communication. 7:15 Intro to NYCw Announcements 7:30 Presentation - Bruce Lai and Bruce Kushnick (details below) 8:45 Mixing - break out into group topics Speakers: JUST ADDED: Bruce Lai, Legislative Policy Analyst, Committee on Technology in Government, New York City Council Bruce Kushnick, Chairman of TeleTruth, http://www.teletruth.org Topic: The Fight for Wireless within Municipalities We are pleased to have 2 distinguished speakers who will address separate aspects of this complex issue: Bruce Lai will explain the municipality outlook for NYC; Bruce Kushnick will address the business and historical issues. Bruce Lai is the Legislative Policy Analyst and lead staff person for the New York City Council's Committee on Technology in Government. The Chair of the Committee is Council Member Gale A. Brewer. One of the primary goals of the Committee is to close the digital divide by expanding access to broadband in underserved communities, most notably small- and mid-sized businesses, nonprofit organizations and low-income neighborhoods outside of the central business districts of Manhattan. The Committee also aims to increase the strategic use of technology in government, thereby, increasing efficiency in government, enhancing the quality of public services and ensuring public safety. Finally, the Committee is committed to the openness and transparency of government, particularly through technological means, as well as making sure that public information (e.g., 311 data) is public, that is, accessible to every New York City resident. Through its ability to hold oversight hearings over City agencies and introduce and hear legislation, the Committee on Technology in Government works to achieve its goals in partnership with the private, public and nonprofit sectors. More information about the Committee and the Chair of the Committee, Council Member Brewer, can be found at the following link: http://nyccouncil.info/issues/committee.cfm?committee_id=106ltsbdkey=5121. Bruce Kushnick, head of TeleTruth.org -- will talk about how the behavior of the entrenched telecom powers, resisting all alternatives (municipal and commercial) is part of a decades long pattern of abuse of their market power. Kushnick, an expert on the Bell's failed deployments and the hidden forces attempting to block municipal wifi, will discuss the history of the problem, as well as expose some of the new workings that are trying to stop, state by state, at the FCC and throughout Congress, competitive broadband and Internet services. Bruce Kushnick has been at the forefront of the fight against these abuses -- especially in Pennsylvania, where he filed complaints to get Verizon to deliver on their promise -- fiber to every home. http://www.teletruth.org/PennBroadbandfraud.html. His bio is here: http://www.teletruth.org/About/bkbio.html Agenda After Speakers * Hands-on Breakout Session - divide into various focus groups (e.g. Intro to Beginners, Antennas and Access Points, Volunteerism, Soekris Development, Network Security) for QA and hands on questions. * Other miscellaneous updates. * SIG Updates Meeting Location: Bway.net, 459 Broadway, 2nd Floor. About 2 blocks north of Canal, near the corner of Grand St. On the west side of the street, then up one flight of stairs. Via subway (Canal Street stop): the J,M,N,Q,R,W,Z, and a bit further, but still on Canal is A,C,E,1,6,9. A handicap accessible entrance is available if you send an e-mail letting know ahead of time. Also, let me ( Ben Serebin ) know if you have any ideas for speakers for our meetings. Thank you. If you have anything to bring or discuss, we will set aside time for you, too! Who should attend? Wireless ISPs Wireless technicians and engineers Business people interested in wireless People working in the wireless community Wireless Security professionals People new to wireless People interested in meeting others involved in the wireless community Buyers of wireless technology products and services Those interested in lively technical discussions ranging from beginner to expert People new to wireless - -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] CNET News-- Cometa Networks to halt operations
My guess -- this is no surprise to anyone on this list. --- Joe Cometa Networks to halt operations By Richard Shim Staff Writer, CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2100-7351-5215320.html Story last modified May 18, 2004, 2:49 PM PDT Wi-Fi pioneer Cometa Networks will announce Wednesday that it is suspending operations following a failure to raise additional capital needed to expand its service nationwide. Cometa representatives confirmed that the company will be shuttering operations over the coming weeks. Obviously this is a disappointment because we felt we had a proven wholesale model, said Kent Hellebust, vice president of marketing at Cometa. But the investment community has reached the decision that the return on the capital investment wouldn't be high enough. The San Francisco-based start-up, formed in late 2002 with the backing of technology giants IBM, Intel and ATT, had said it would build a network of 20,000 hot spots, with 15,000 up and running by 2005. Hot spots are areas where wireless Internet access is available to the public. But Cometa never managed to install enough hot spots or strike major alliances with partners, and it quickly fell behind rivals in snapping up the most valuable hot-spot locations. Analysts have been skeptical of the start-up's business model since it opened its doors. Hellebust added that the company has built a profitable business in Seattle. But without the cash to fund a nationwide network, which is key to the company's cost savings and service coverage efforts, the company would not be able to continue. Cometa is the latest hot-spot company to be closing its doors. Wi-Fi start-up Joltage shut down its operations last year after it failed to raise additional capital needed to expand its service. Earlier this year, Cometa acquired Toshiba's SurfHere hot spots. In many cases, start-ups have either been too early to market or had weak business plans, according to Keith Waryas, an analyst at research firm IDC. The value of hot spots by the vast majority of people with Wi-Fi devices isn't clear, Waryas said. One of Cometa's biggest problems was being too far ahead of the curve...dying before the mainstream mass markets formed. Unlike other network operators, Cometa was a wholesale low-cost provider of hot-spot access for service companies. The upstart had been focusing on providing network operations to outside service providers. The advantage of this wholesale model was that it allowed multiple service providers to use the same hot spot. That spread out the cost of maintaining the network, which can lead to lower prices for consumers. The biggest cost is the back-haul operations, which includes the broadband connection. Cometa's model, in which multiple providers could use the hot spots, helped to cut the cost of operations and lower the cost of the service to consumers. One of Cometa's service providers in Seattle offered monthly access for $11.95 per month. Other hot-spot providers charge as much as $40 per month. But a significant element to that strategy is having enough hot spots to attract carriers and service providers. Service providers look for a large number of locations so their subscribers can access a wide network. Cometa had difficulty in striking some of those large-scale alliances. The company was recently overlooked by restaurant chain McDonald's as a hot-spot operator in favor of rival Wayport. Waryas said he believes hot-spot services will survive only as part of a bundle from service providers. As a pure ISP business, hot spots don't have legs, he said. Where it will work is with providers that can offer it as part of a package and where providers can off load some traffic. Cometa's 40 employees will be let go over the next few weeks. Enthusiast site Wi-Fi Networking News posted information about the expected announcement earlier Tuesday. -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Re: DSL costs going up ...
Lets be precise. Wireless, at least current wifi, is not an adequate replacement for landline, at least in cities. WiMax or other non-LOS spectrum that might become available someday? That would be a different story. My reason for caution -- Powell likes to cite the wireless alternative to insist there isn't a cable/telco broadband duopoly, as FCC closes out network access to competitive ISPs and CLECs. My 2 ¢. --- Joe At 2:44 AM -0400 4/7/04, Anthony Townsend wrote: 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 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Fwd: Strangled telecom: how a natural monopoly stays that way
the law (so to speak) into their own hands. Just as cities built electrical grids and other utilities in the past, they are building their own phone and cable networks today. Despite the incumbent phone companies whining and hand-wringing over declining profits, they turn out to have plenty of money to stop this threat too. The cities and towns are truly their most formidable competitor, and they've left no stone unturned in the fight against municipal networks. In dozens of states they've gotten laws passed that specifically target municipalities. These laws ban the creation of municipal networks outright, or place on them onerous burdens in terms of financing and regulation. The cynicism as well as destructiveness of these laws is staggering. Towns are closing up and blowing away in some parts of the country. Young people abandon them for places with a more advanced economic infrastructure. These towns need modern networks the way they need a police force or water lines. And their [81]stories reveal that they have repeatedly tried to get help from commercial phone companies, to no avail. So if you and your neighbors want to put together a lawn-mowing or snow-shoveling collective, or organize to volunteer in your local schools, you are free to do so. But in many states you can't string a network. The Telecom Act actually includes a clause prohibiting the states from stopping competition. But the Supreme Court, in yesterday's ruling, assumed this clause applies only to private, commercial firms. You and your neighbors--you have no right to compete. Natural monopolies and unnatural acts Most of the political attention in the computer industry is focused right now on the Microsoft monopoly and the punitive European Union fine. There may be little that governments can do in this regard, because it seems inevitable for functions to be aggregated and subsumed into a common base as they become widespread--as people take them for granted. There was a time when Windows had no TCP/IP network stack. Who could ask for that to be unbundled now? The question becomes whether a single company can use its strangle-hold to suppress innovation and extract an unfair amount of payment for a common technological base. In the same way, telecom seems to settle into a natural monopoly, to cite the notorious term introduced by ATT president Theodore Vail in [82]1907. But as it becomes more and more widespread and taken for granted, it deserves less and less to be a cash cow for private companies. Even back in 1907, Vail recognized that regulation was necessary. At this point, municipal ownership can often be justified. Backers of the phone company position have sneered recently that phone companies are being unfairly constrained from using their own facilities the way they wish. After all, they own the lines, the poles, and the switching equipment. Who has the right to tell them how to use it? Well, the answer is that the companies don't own a right to these things free and clear. They've had ninety years of regulated monopoly status during which to build them up. The public granted them the right to lay lines and build networks. It was a partnership between a company and the public. Because capitalist laws are too crude to reflect this subtle partnership, the equipment is formally the property of the phone companies. But for phone companies to abandon their responsibility to support competition would be the communications equivalent of the land enclosures and expulsions that impoverished millions of people from the seventeenth century to the current day. References 80. http://praxagora.com/andyo/wr/bell_application.html 81. http://praxagora.com/andyo/ar/municipal_net.html 82. http://www.att.com/history/history3.html -- Andy Oram O'Reilly Associates email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editor 90 Sherman Street voice: 617-499-7479 Cambridge, MA 02140-3233 fax: 617-661-1116 USA http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ Stories at Web site: The Bug in the Seven Modules Code the Obscure The Disconnected -- -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http
[nycwireless] Yes, NYCwireless meeting is on tonight!!
Snow --- what snow?? Subways are working nice. See you soon. - Joe General Monthly NYCwireless Meeting. Wednesday, January 28th at 7:15pm Meeting Location: Bway.net, 459 Broadway, 2nd Floor About 2 blocks north of Canal, near the corner of Grand St. On the west side of the street, then up one flight of stairs. Via subway (Canal Street stop): the J,M,N,Q,R,W,Z, and a bit further, but still on Canal is A,C,E,1,6,9. A handicap accessible entrance is available if you send an e-mail letting Ben Serebin know ahead of time. Also, let me know if you have any ideas for speakers for our meetings. Thank you. Agenda Main Speaker is Jesse Frankel of AirMagnet. Topic is Optimizing and Managing Wireless Networks in Urban Environments. [AirMagnet has also generously donated their AirMagnet 3.0 Laptop Software , a retail value of $3,000 as a give-away for our January Meeting]. Only catch is you must be a NYCwireless member, Sign-up Details. Great for wireless network troubleshooting of 802.a/b/g networks. * Hands-on Breakout Session - divide into various focus groups (e.g. Intro to Beginners, Antennas and Access Points, Volunteerism, Soekris Development, Network Security) for QA and hands on questions. * -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Fwd: NYTimes.com Article: Using a Bicycle to Uplink on a Downtown Platform
Congrat Yury -- nice picture. Joe At 11:16 AM -0500 12/15/03, Anthony Townsend wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: David L. Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: December 15, 2003 10:59:28 AM EST 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. GALLAGHER As a saxophone's melancholy music bounced off the tile walls of the subway station at Union Square in Manhattan last Thursday afternoon, Yury Gitman was hunched over a laptop computer, trying a different kind of performance. A thin stream of wireless Internet bandwidth was trickling down the stairs to the downtown platform of the N,R,Q and W lines, two levels below the street, and Mr. Gitman was trying to get the tenuous link to send what he said would be the first e-mail message from this deep in the New York City subway system. Mr. Gitman, an artist who is teaching a class at the Parsons School of Design in collaboration with Eyebeam, a media arts organization, intended the stunt to be a demonstration of his Magicbikes - ordinary bicycles rigged with networking gear that transforms them into wireless Internet access points, using the wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, technology now built into many laptops. The bikes can connect to and amplify the signals of Wi-Fi transmitters in the vicinity. Or they can tap into a cellular data network, as was the case with a Magicbike parked at the top of the subway stairs. That bike formed an impromptu network with the Magicbike on the platform with Mr. Gitman. After some snags, Mr. Gitman and his students cheered as their holiday greetings to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg went through. Just in time, too: Magicbikes lose their magic when the batteries die, as was starting to happen. (A spokeswoman for Parsons said on Friday night that the mayor had not yet responded.) Free wireless Internet access has proven popular in Bryant Park and other public spaces in Manhattan. A few subway patrons demonstrated curiosity, but none hauled out a laptop to use the Magicbikes. Mr. Gitman insists that New Yorkers need free Internet access in the subway and everywhere else. It's a quality of life issue, he said, and the technology is cheap and easy to set up. Although ads from companies like Intel suggest that the world is blanketed in Wi-Fi signals, Mr. Gitman said, coverage is in fact still limited. He said he used bicycles because they blend into the urban fabric, and because cyclists tended to be socially conscious and politically active. The bikes are not good at allowing the use of their wireless abilities when they are in motion, but Mr. Gitman plans to put his class to work next semester solving that problem. When this project is successful, he said. people will say, 'A bicycle with Internet access - so what?' http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/15/technology/15wifi.html?ex=1072495543ei=1en=10e286fceaa93348 - -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Now Ranked #1 in USA! http://www.dslreports.com/gbu === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Service Mapping
We're (NYCw board) working on ways to make free nodes more visible as well as to generate positive reinforcement for node owners -- maybe something as simple as a thank you note interface. We welcome any suggestions. We hope to have a plan completed before years end to launch in the new year. And of course, it'll be presented first at the general meeting for feedback. --- Joe At 2:14 PM -0500 11/20/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: indeed, not knowing who (if anyone?) is using any given node is a rather interesting problem for a group like this. i, for example, have no idea if anyone is actually using my node. my location (not near park/cafe/public space) limits the useful coverage i can provide, but i do get numerous inquiries through the nodedb asking me questions about access. a few days ago a link to control ap (http://controlap.com/ ) was posted on this list. would a solution along these lines be viable for non-nocat installations? ie. an app that runs on on numerous platforms that allows a non-highly skilled user to make the h/w ap they already own toss up an aup page and log some basic info. perhaps even give the user the option of entering their name/nickname if they wish. noah. On Nov 19, 2003, at 5:00 PM, Anthony Townsend wrote: 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. Emenity has built a system like this and could help setting one up for NYCwireless. our current solution is rather awkward though - if someone wants to try and wrestle with msyslog (which has native MySQL support but almost no documentation) that would offer a much better long-term solution. reporters always ask me how many people are using NYCwireless nodes, and i tell them i have no idea. you could address privacy concerns by applying a one-way hash to MAC address as you parse the Nocat log files -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Now Ranked #1 in USA! http://www.dslreports.com/gbu === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Some Say New 5GHz FCC Rules Not Enough
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Re: [nycwireless] Polls/surveys about wireless usage (bycoffeebuyers, etc.)?
Actually I agree with Ben here. If we want to pursue this research it needs to be statistically valid and conducted professionally. Having a self-selected group of NYCw users fill out a form on our own website is not gonna give us valid results. It would be good to find out how many wireless-capable coffee drinkers know about all the free and paid options they have; what do they choose and why. Might help us decide where to put our outreach energies. There are professional firms that do this sort of thing -- although we would need to find sponsors to foot the bill. But its not impossible, right? - Joe At 12:03 PM -0400 10/1/03, freelance writer wrote: Ben, I don't think that that the nycw site should be the only source, but I do think it's a good place to reach a lot of wireless users. Only asking people who aren't in the know, so to speak, is not necessarily ideal, either. I think we should do both: I aso agree about the camp-out-at-coffe-shops thing (free and paid), and would be willing to do some of that myself. Dan From: Ben N. Serebin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Polls/surveys about wireless usage (bycoffeebuyers, etc.)? Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:39:11 -0400 Hello All, I don't know if the NYCw website would be best for this, especially since many wireless visitors of stores are not NYCw members. Unless we want to stack the deck for wireless locations. I think a better approach would be if someone camped out at a free paid wireless location to ask a series of questions to each wireless user. And better yet, while conduct these surveys to have a laptop with a sign on the back saying, Got Wireless? Yes, It's Here! To talk with potential wireless users, on why they don't do wireless outside of their house, or explain the pros and cons. -Ben - Original Message - From: freelance writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Polls/surveys about wireless usage (by coffeebuyers, etc.)? There seems to be a lot of support for doing this sort of poll and so far, no objections. Does the nycwireleless staff think its merit is sufficient to use the nycwireless site (and hence visitors and community) as one means of testing? Some kind of pop-up or sidebar, etc? From: Joe Plotkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anthony Townsend [EMAIL PROTECTED],freelance writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Polls/surveys about wireless usage (by coffee buyers, etc.)? Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 03:09:31 -0400 Perception is a funny thing. Why is it that these coffee shop owners no longer see wireless as a way to draw additional customers? In other words, are they taking these customers for granted because they sit too long? Is user behavior different when node use is free? Do they feel obliged to buy more? Do free node users spend less time camping because their use is more casual? It would be very worthwhile to do a formal study. --- Joe At 11:31 PM -0400 9/30/03, Anthony Townsend wrote: I think that no one has systematically asked these questions. In fact, I think that many coffee shop owners are not excited about wireless users lurking since they don't make a lot of additional purchases. Rumor has it that more than one Starbucks' manager has deliberately disconnected the Tmobile APs to deter wireless campers in their stores. On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 07:20 pm, freelance writer wrote: I promise to quiet down after this new thread, but my original question about how to convince a small-business owner to share their connection has raised a question which I think deserves some consideration. Are there any poll or survey results out there that would give a small business-owner a good idea of what to expect if he or she were to provide free wireless access? Answering questions like * How much more time will a wireless laptop user spend than a regular customer? * What percentage of wireless users would go to a say, coffee shop that provided access v. one that didn't? (And what distances would they go to do so, etc? * How many purchases can the average coffee shop wireless user be expected to make? I would have expected there to be dozens of studies, but I haven't found any raw data or any journalistic references. Can someone point me in the right direction, or, alternately, would anyone like to help me in coordinating such a survey? I think it could be really useful. Thanks, Dan _ Help protect your PC. Get a FREE computer virus scan online from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http
[nycwireless] Fwd: Verisign DNS
http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/33050 Verisign Hijack DNS changes anger many Written by Karl Bode Verisign isn't particularly popular this week among network administrators after the company changed the DNS system yesterday to take advantage of typing mis-cues. The company yesterday decided to add wildcard DNS records to managed .com and .net domains, in essence redirecting wayward surfers to a Verisign search portal should they get lost while traversing the digital highway. The changes were quietly announced to the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) mailing list yesterday without much fanfare, but the decision quickly made waves as evident in various forums throughout Broadband Reports. Users, typing in incorrect addresses, might have originally been directed to an informative error message. Now, thanks to Verisign's changes, those same users will now be redirected to Verisign's sitefinder index. Critics charge that the company is exploiting its role as operators of the root DNS servers in order to advertise to lost users (Verisign was granted top level domain management rights by ICANN when they purchased Network Solutions). Admins are also upset by a wide variety of other problems the changes will cause, including making it more difficult for mail servers to reject mail from invalid domains. According to one disgruntled critic speaking to the Register, that's not all: If an MX record points to an invalid host name, that host will now resolve, the SMTP connection accepted and the mail then rejected. Because the rejection is a 550 error, that mail will not get retried *ever* again. If that MX was the highest priority mail server than all mail to that domain name will bounce. The changes also impact many attempts to eliminate spam. Since many systems attempt to verify the authenticity of a domain to determine an e-mail's validity, now that ALL domains in essence exist (since non-existing domains now trace back to sitefinder), it makes many of these technologies temporarily useless. Causing a long list of problems simply to advertise has naturally created quite an anti-Verisign push among many admins web-wide. The company had already managed to dig themselves a popularity hole due to a history of somewhat brutish business tactics in regards to domain renewal notices. Disgruntled techies are already contemplating work-arounds, including hacking BIND (the dns server software) from the top level to disallow wildcards altogether. Those interested in letting Verisign know what they think of the new system could contact Scott Hollenbeck and Matt Larson from VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services. You could also, in this glorious age of free-speech, let Verisign president W.G. Champion Mitchell, or Chairman and CEO Stratton Sclavos know how you feel as well.if one were so inclined. -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Fwd: Verisign DNS
So sorry for my list etiquette faux pas -- but if a few paragraphs of ascii is a problem, I'd be glad to sell you a much more capable connection. But seriously, while I applaud your direct action in writing a letter, unfortunately, I think we'll need wider public action against Verisign to make them repeal this land-grab. So lets get some ideas flowing here -- anyone? -- Joe At 4:13 PM -0400 9/16/03, Kevin Arima wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Joe Plotkin wrote: http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/33050 *snip*. I think we went over this a couple of month ago. Please please please please STOP QUOTING ENTIRE ARTICLES. On the aside, I've made ICANT quite aware of how I feel about the changes Verisuck made to the .com/.net TLD. Kevin Starfox Arima -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Streaming Audio of Tonight's Monthly Meeting
Terry-- We can put the outbound stream on one of our 1.5 SDSL circuits -- better upload speed for the stream and the wireless node can remain at at full strength. A win-win, right? Joe At 3:25 PM -0400 8/27/03, Terry Schmidt wrote: We are going to try streaming the audio portion of tonight's monthly meeting. The URL for the stream is: http://stream.nycwireless.net:8000/ The streaming will start at ~ 7:15pm. You can use Winamp, Windows Media Player, Real Player, Quicktime, iTunes, etc to listen to the stream. It is a streaming MP3. This will be a trial to see if we want to do this for future meetings, and if it is valuable. If you listen to the stream, and think it is worthwhile and want us to do it again in the future, send me an email. If you are at the meeting tonight, please don't abuse the bandwidth so that we can make the streaming work. Download your ISO images later, etc. Thanks to Pilosoft (www.pilosoft.com) for donating the colocation space and bandwidth used for tonight's streaming. --Terry -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Re: RFC: Authentication/identifying mechanismto protect hotspot owners
enter an existing
e-mail address. The site automatically sends a verification message to
that address, and opens up only those ports allowing users to check
e-mail through a standard e-mail client.
Here lie a number of assumptions which will not work. Aside from silly
arguments like the fact that not everyone on the Internet has email, there
are some real problems here.
First: so you open pop2, pop3, pop3s, kpop, imap, imap3, and imaps. How
does this help people with Yahoo or Hotmail email accounts? Can you open
web to allow access to popular webmail services? If you do, you cut off
less popular webmail services, or you end up with a VERY long list after a
while which requires maintenance.
What about people without a POP / IMAP client and without webmail? Do you
open ssh / telnet for them? This goes on, but essentially, you'll have an
open network soon if you account for all the ways that email can be
checked.
This is not unreasonable on its face, however; one can easily modify the
idea to say that any given MAC address will work for 15 minutes unless /
until the authentication process is completed.
The verification message contains a password, phrase or some other
method that the user can then put back into the gatekeeper Web form.
Only then will the MAC address associated with that user be given full
access to the hotspot's bandwidth. If that user then misuses the
hotspot and there is a subsequent investigation or subpoena, the hotspot
owner can (if given appropriate court order) provide that user's e-mail
address to the authorities for further investigations. Further, if the
user fails to respond to the initial e-mail in a short amount of time
(say, 5 minutes), the MAC address can be temporarily blocked if
necessary.
Note that while this may appear to an invetigative authority or a court
to be an attempt to do the right thing, and while it basically appears
to be a good idea, it is useless in trying to identify those who would go
out of their way to perform illegal acts when one considers how easy it is
to get free, untraceable, practically anonymous email accounts. Anyone who
intends to do illegal things is going to obtain junk email accounts.
First question: Is this technically feasible? That is, is there a way
to
allow only incoming mail (to reduce the possibilities of spammers taking
advantage of mail ports before the authentication is complete), even for
those folks who used Web-based mail like Yahoo or Hotmail? What about
non-POP mail like AOL? I realize that a partially-usable system will be
worse than no system at all, so I'd like to figure out if the technical
barriers can be surmounted.
Partial access of the Internet for email checking is not possible without
big assumptions, but time limited access certainly is possible and not
difficult.
There are other issues; someone who wishes to do illegal things may take
the time to spoof MAC addresses, meaning she / he might use the timed
access over and over, or may just use the MAC addresses of already
authenticated users once they leave. A TCP/IP stack fingerprinting scheme
would need to be included in any hypothetical design, too.
Beyond that, what do you as users and perhaps operators of hotspots
think of this proposal? Does it cause more problems than it potentially
solves?
If you're interested in studying the problems and seeking solutions, it's
not infeasible, but it is, perhaps, more work than you may have originally
though.
I am writing a solution for a not-yet-public wireless access spot which
will have users come in and sign up with staff. We still have to consider
MAC spoofing and TCP/IP fingerprinting, but there's no email problem,
obviously. Also, they can decide to ask for whatever ID they choose,
making the disposable email account issue moot.
The biggest problem is helping not necessarily computer literate staff and
users to find their MAC addresses. While we can have the server catch new
MAC addresses and display them, it doesn't help if more than one
unregistered MAC address is visible at a time.
I look forward to your comments. Thanks. {Jonathan}
If you're interested in continuing a dialogue about this, feel free to
email me off list. Also, anyone else reading this who is interested in
helping with TCP/IP fingerprinting work should also contact me.
Good luck!
Thanks,
John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs
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Re: [nycwireless] Re: RFC: Authentication/identifying mechanismto protect hotspot owners
Believe it or not, an alleged threat to the president requires a judge to approve a search warrant. An alleged copyright violation is rubber stamped by a clerk AUTOMATICALLY! We, luckily, have not [yet] been served with a subpoena to turn over one of our clients. - Joe At 12:37 PM -0400 8/18/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I pointed out last NYCw meeting, fortunately this is not the case yet in NY state. So, to protect our customers' privacy, Bway.net no longer keeps logs on our ADSL customers DHCP sessions. Also, unlike Verizon and many other ISPs, we do NOT employ PPPoE so there is no session authentication record either. Joe, what exactly do you do when you get a DMCA infringement notice? What will you do when Secret Service knocks on your door and says that one of your users emailed a threat to the president? -- Alex Pilosov| DSL, Colocation, Hosting Services President | [EMAIL PROTECTED](800) 710-7031 Pilosoft, Inc. | http://www.pilosoft.com -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Re: RFC: Authentication/identifying mechanismto protect hotspot owners
Thanks for the correction -- the point I was trying to make was that DMCA subpoenas have no judicial review requirement -- so the mere allegation is enough to get it issued. The RIAA has served over 1000 already. --- Joe At 3:02 PM -0400 8/18/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Believe it or not, an alleged threat to the president requires a judge to approve a search warrant. An alleged copyright violation is rubber stamped by a clerk AUTOMATICALLY! We, luckily, have not [yet] been served with a subpoena to turn over one of our clients. There's a difference between search warrant and subpoena. Distinctly different tools, and can't be compared like that. Subpoena is a tool to ask for information held in one's possession in a civil or criminal suit, compliance is self-enforced (i.e. you are responsible for complying with subpoena. US Marshals can't be called if you don't comply, but if issuer of subpoena goes to the judge, you may be held in contempt of the court for refusing to comply with a subpoena). You can go to judge and quash the subpoena if you believe its not valid/applicable/too broad. Search warrant on other hand is enforced by police/US Marshals, is originated by prosecutor and approved by judge. YMMV. IANAL. HTH. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 Boston: 617.848.0416 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Re: nycwireless Digest, Vol 5, Issue 20
I have been having a running dialog with an attorney at EFF -- she is drafting guidelines for ISPs and accidental ISPs (i.e. public nodes). I'd be glad to do a presentation about it at the July meeting if you'd like. - Joe At 3:11 PM -0400 7/18/03, Dana Spiegel wrote: Sounds like a perfect topic for an upcoming meeting: the Legal aspects of Wi-Fi and community networks. I have a few lawyers that I could invite. Of course, there's nothing we can do to stop being threatened, except for getting media behind our cause (which they seem to have been for a while now). The thing that we may be able to do is put up a good defence... And of course, talking to your congressman and educating him is always a good idea... We should perhaps get some polititians involved... Subject: [nycwireless] LEGAL ASSISTANCE: was RE: Hot spots elude RIAA From: Jacob Farkas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:08:25 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all, This topic was mentioned recently and I was wondering whether we have any attorneys or people who know attorneys who would be willing to assist community networks and their operators, so as to avoid being threatened, sued, etc. as a result of questionable anonymous use of their networks. While the article suggests that it is a virtual dead-end for the RIAA at the moment, this topic has often been discussed at great length in our posts, and at our monthly meetings, it was mostly speculative and hopeful, rather than factual and legally accurate. For those of you with legal expertise, this is a perfect way to contribute to NYCwireless. While we do have a wealth of technical, practical, and well-intentioned volunteers, who contribute with time, expertise, and money, we do need have much help in the legal field, and this could be of concern to many current and potential node operators. Please contact me off-list, if you are or know someone who is willing to help in any way possible. Thank You, = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Jacob Farkas NYCwireless Community Outreach Effort [C.O.R.E.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Looking for a July Mtg Speaker for ourNYCwireless Meeting
Actually, I'd like to know more about 802.16, the new long-distance protocol that Intel is hyping. Anyone? -- Joe At 2:13 PM -0700 7/15/03, Jon Baer wrote: i thought it was already discussed 2 meetings ago ... i would not mind speaking on security related issues (like using snort/ethereal/tcpdump to monitor ur AP) or the warbiking gps mapping setup. i also have a wireless sensor from network chemistry that is pretty cool. - jon pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47 - Original Message - From: Ben N. Serebin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:10 AM Subject: [nycwireless] Looking for a July Mtg Speaker for our NYCwireless Meeting Hello All, I'm looking for a excellent speaker for our July 30th Meeting to discuss 802.11g. Any takers? Thanks, -Ben -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Jacket left at meeting
Grey Banana republic jacket. Pick up any weekday 930am - 7pm. - Joe -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 772.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
Re: [nycwireless] Limits Sought on Wireless Internet Access
Can you say Predator? Joe At 3:33 PM -0500 12/17/02, Charlie Ridgway wrote: My Wi-Fi client has a range of maybe 100 meters and they are worrying about it interfering with military radar. Are they practicing strafing runs on Bryant Park? --- A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible. Welsh Proverb On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:43:18 Marcos R. Lara wrote: fun with the defense dept... --- Limits Sought on Wireless Internet Access By JOHN MARKOFF http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/technology/17WIRE.html?ei=5062en=cf7cb7bc065fba42ex=1040792400partner=GOOGLEpagewanted=allposition=top SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16 ó The Defense Department, arguing that an increasingly popular form of wireless Internet access could interfere with military radar, is seeking new limits on the technology, which is seen as a rare bright spot for the communications industry. _ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plusref=lmtplus -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 561.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Fwd: RFP :: FCC :: Wireless :: Additional Unlicensed Spectrum(WIFI)
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:11:13 -0800 Reply-To: Telecom Regulation the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Telecom Regulation the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Robert Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RFP :: FCC :: Wireless :: Additional Unlicensed Spectrum (WIFI) Comments: To: CyberTelecom Announce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: RO FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE News Media Contact: December 11, 2002 Lisa Gaisford at (202) 418-7280 FCC BEGINS INQUIRY REGARDING ADDITIONAL SPECTRUM FOR UNLICENSED DEVICES As part of the ongoing effort to promote efficient use of spectrum, the FCC today asked for public comment on the possibility of permitting unlicensed transmitters to operate in additional frequency bands. Such changes could allow the development of new and innovative types of unlicensed devices. This inquiry examines new and creative ways to utilize the spectrum resource more efficiently by considering new spectral frontiers for unlicensed use. In a Notice of Inquiry approved today, the Commission stated that the current rules for unlicensed transmitters have been a tremendous success. A wide variety of devices have been developed and introduced under those rules for consumer and business use, including cordless telephones, home security systems, electronic toys, anti-pilfering and inventory control systems, and computer wireless local area networks. The success of those rules shows that there could be significant benefits to the economy, businesses and consumers in making additional spectrum available for unlicensed transmitters. Unlicensed transmitters may be operated under the provisions of Part 15 of the Commission's Rules. Part 15 transmitters generally operate on frequencies shared with authorized services at relatively low power, levels and must operate on a non-interference basis. The Notice seeks comments on whether unlicensed operations should be permitted in additional frequency bands. Specifically, it seeks comments on the feasibility of allowing unlicensed devices to operate in the TV broadcast spectrum and locations and times when spectrum is not being used. It also seeks comment on the feasibility of permitting unlicensed devices to operate in other bands, such as the 3650-3700 MHz band, at power levels higher than other unlicensed transmitters with only the minimal technical requirements necessary to prevent interference to licensed services. The Commission noted that there have been significant advances in technology that may make it feasible to design new types of unlicensed devices that are able to share spectrum in the TV bands without causing interference to licensed services operating in those bands. Advances in computer technology make it possible to design equipment that could monitor the spectrum to detect frequencies already in use and ensure that transmissions only occur on open frequencies. The low cost of GPS equipment could allow a device to determine its location and use information from a database to determine whether there are any licensed operations in its vicinity. Equipment can be designed that is frequency agile, with the capability of changing frequency as needed to avoid interference to licensed users. Action by the Commission December 11, 2002 by Notice of Inquiry (FCC 02-328). Chairman Powell, Commissioners Abernathy and Copps, with Commissioner Martin approving in part and dissenting in part, Commissioner Adelstein not participating and Chairman Powell, Commissioners Abernathy, Copps and Martin issuing separate statements. OET Docket No. 02-380 - FCC - Office of Engineering Technology Contact: Hugh L. Van Tuyl (202) 418-7506 = ~ Washington Internet Project ~ ~www.cybertelecom.org ~ ~ cannon(at)cybertelecom.org ~ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 561.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Wired.com- Wireless WarDrive: Wee Bit of Fun
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RE: [nycwireless] SpeakEasy.net Wireless sharing policy?
Maybe Covad should stop competing with their own ISP partners. We consider that downright unfriendly. -- Joe At 12:33 PM -0700 10/22/02, Seoane, Dan wrote: Don't forget Covad, We are friendly to all Wireless access -d -Original Message- From: Ben Serebin [mailto:ben;nycwireless.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [nycwireless] SpeakEasy.net Wireless sharing policy? Hello All, Just a little reminder... the recommended wireless friendly broadband providers in the New York area are: AceDSL.com Bway.net Cloud9.net Also, even though Speakeasy's TOS is vague, the CEO has made comments that wireless is OK. This link also identifies other ISPs nationwide. http://www.eff.org/Infra/Wireless_cellular_radio/wireless_friendly_isp_list. html -Ben - Original Message - From: Kevin M. Agard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [nycwireless] SpeakEasy.net Wireless sharing policy? Their TOS are online at http://www.speakeasy.net/main.php?page=res_dsltos Kev wrote: Hi. Does anyone know what is the official policy of Speakeasy.net in regards to bandwidth sharing? I am interested in setting up an AP in Park Slope and Speakeasy just have this new offer that looks kind of nice. Any comments? -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 561.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] TeleTruth Applauds SBA's Defense of Small ISPs From HarmfulProposed FCC Broadband Rules.
I know this is slightly off-topic for this list but without independent ISPs many of those wireless connections might only allow you play with your own LAN. And I heard you could go blind that way . . . -- Joe FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 29th, 2002 SBA JOINS TELETRUTH IN DEFENDING SMALL ISPS AND CRITICIZING PROPOSED FCC BROADBAND RULINGS. New York The Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Advocacy joined TeleTruth in formally urging the FCC to broaden and correct their analysis of the impact their proposed wireline broadband rules will have on America's small and medium-sized ISPs. After reviewing the Commission's proposed rule.Advocacy is concerned the Commission has understated the impact on small ISPs of its tentative conclusion classifying broadband access service as an information service... SBA's Advocacy group said in its August 27 filing with the FCC. Such an action will severely hamper the ability of small ISPs to provide broadband service, stifling competition and slowing down deployment. Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act passed by Congress in 1980 (as amended), federal regulators are required to assess the impact on small businesses of any new or proposed changes to existing rules and policies. In assessing the impact of its proposed broadband service decisions on small businesses, the FCC largely limited its consideration to costs associated with reporting and record keeping requirements. Both the SBA's Advocacy group and TeleTruth are critical of the Commission's decision to limit the scope of its assessment to these narrow categories. Although Advocacy shares the Commission's commitment to deregulation to bolster competition and spur economic growth, in this instance, [the FCC's broadband service proposals] of complete deregulation will create impenetrable barriers to entry, eliminating competition from small businesses and removing consumer choice added the SBA. SBA's filing mirrors TeleTruth's earlier filing (May 9, 2002) and buttresses TeleTruth's position that the FCC is in violation of the core requirements and intent of the Regulatory Flexibility Act which now requires that the Commission conduct a full impact study on how their rules will affect the viability of small ISPs and CLEC businesses. If the FCC's proposals go through, most competitive ISPs will not be able to lease access to key network elements and facilities they need and have used in the past to reach their customers. Customers will have far fewer and more costly choices than they enjoy today under current regulations, said Joe Plotkin of Bway.net, a New York City based ISP. A separate impact study conducted by New Networks Institute, a member of TeleTruth, found that thousands of small ISPs would be at risk if the FCC's proposals are put into effect and that it could cost companies over $8 billion dollars and affect 10-15 million Internet users. When you examine the collapse of competition and the telecommunications sector, which has directly affected the entire economy, you find that the FCC's hands are dirty, said Dan Berninger, Director, Pulver.com. They have not enforced many of the basic laws that are designed to give competitors equal access to the public telephone network. There have been hundreds of complaints and numerous court cases that clearly show the FCC's lack of interest in enforcing the law is one of the primary reasons for the economic crash of the Telecom sector. The FCC's current crop of broadband proposed rules will be the final nail the coffin for most small ISPs and CLECs. SBA has independently examined these issues, and has come to some of the same conclusions we at TeleTruth have adds Bruce Kushnick, Chairman, TeleTruth, and Executive Director, New Networks Institute. The FCC should now revise its analysis and take into account the valuable role thousands of small, entrepreneurial ISP businesses have played in the dynamic growth and development of the broadband and Internet economy. It's good to know that one government agency actually has done its homework - and is taking the FCC to task to make sure the future isn't left to only the big monopolies who offer inferior services. We applaud the SBA for their efforts, adds Kushnick. === Online Version of SBA Ex Parte Presentation http://www.sba.gov/advo/laws/comments/fcc02_0827.html To Read TeleTruth's Comments and Related Materials http://www.teletruth.org/FCCbroadband.html === For more information, please call: Bruce Kushnick, 212-777-5418, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Plotkin, 212-982-9800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Berninger, 410-279-1220, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob Garnet, 201-218-7125, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 561.365.5877
Re: [nycwireless] warchalking
Really guys, I just thought it was amusing. I guess my sarcasm doesn't always come thru in digital space the same. - Joe At 10:59 AM -0400 6/26/02, Bon sy wrote: Anthony, I think what Joe posted is merely a piece of information about creating hobo-language for free wireless networking. That's all what the URL is about as far as I can understand. I think it may be something interesting for at least some members of NYCwireless. Also I wonder whether public you meant below is the same as free, and what audience you are referring to. Obviously one can create a free networking just for himself/herself but it is not public. Or one can create a public group but insisted on stringent membership requirement so that practically it is not free for everyone or a community. Bon On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Anthony Townsend wrote: please dont do this unless its your access point and you are sharing it publicly Joe Plotkin heyjoe at bway.net Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:32:27 -0400 I guess we can add this to the meeting agenda -- for discussion at the bar: http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 561.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Fwd: warchalking - a hobo-language for free wireless networking
I guess we can add this to the meeting agenda -- for discussion at the bar: http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/ -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 561.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === Fight the Monopoly! http://www.TeleTruth.org === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
[nycwireless] Wireless regulation questions . . .
This is from another list -- if anyone here can explain, I'll cross-post on the CYBERTELECOM-List with full attribution. Thanks. - Joe X-X-Sender: fm-listproc@localhost Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 22:36:26 -0400 Reply-To: Telecom Regulation the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: Telecom Regulation the Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: fm-listproc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Change to Part 15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: Any wireless regulatory junkie can turn this into english and paint a picture for the future use of 802.11b or other technologies ni 2.4G following these changes ... longer range ? higher throughput? Ability to use cheaper radios (non-DSSS or FHSS)? -=Francois=- COMMISSION AMENDS PART 15 OF ITS RULES TO FACILITATE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH SPEED WIRELESS SERVICES Washington, DC - The FCC has amended its rules to promote the introduction of new digital transmission technologies for high-speed wireless communications. Specifically, the Commission has modified Part 15 of its rules to permit new digital transmission technologies to operate in the 902-928 MHz (915 MHz), 2400-2483.5 MHz (2.4 GHz) and 5725-5850 MHz (5.7 GHz) bands under the current rules for spread spectrum systems. The Commission also provided flexibility in the design and operation of frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) systems in the 2.4 GHz band and eliminated the processing gain requirement for direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) systems. These actions will foster the development of new products and increase consumer choice. Currently, the Part 15 rules permit the operation of DSSS and FHSS systems on a non-licensed basis. In both techniques, the power density of the transmitted signal is reduced, which lowers the possibility that the transmitter will cause interference to other devices operating in the band. The Commission has determined that because new digital modulation technologies have spectrum characteristics similar to DSSS systems, they can operate under the same rules as DSSS devices in the 915 MHz, 2.4 GHz, and 5.7 GHz bands without posing additional risk of interference. Today's decision removes the rule that limits systems in these bands to only DSSS and FHSS technology. Additional actions taken today will permit the use of as few as fifteen hopping channels for FHSS in the 2.4 GHz band. These systems will be able to use channel bandwidth up to 5 MHz wide, but they must reduce their output power to125 mW if fewer than 75 hopping channels are used. This action will allow new FHSS systems to better avoid interference than today's systems by enabling them to avoid occupied channels. The Commission also eliminated the processing gain requirement for DSSS systems, concluding that manufacturers have market-driven incentives to design products that they can withstand interference from other radio frequency devices. The rule changes adopted in this Second Report and Order will provide manufacturers flexibility to design and market a more diverse set of products which are able to operate efficiently in the unlicensed bands. The rule changes will also allow for greater spectrum sharing in the 2.4 GHz band by removing regulatory barriers to the introduction of new non-interfering technologies. Action by the Commission May 16, 2002, by Second Report and Order (FCC 02-151). Chairman Powell, Commissioners Abernathy, Copps, and Martin, with Commissioner Martin issuing a statement. -- === Joe Plotkin DSL/Marketing Bway.net - NYC's Best Internet === Bway.net 459 Broadway, 2nd floor New York, NY 10013 vox: 212.982.9800 fax: 212.982.5499 efax: 561.365.5877 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] xDSL info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bway.net === -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
