If they're using WDS to extend the network there are some
interoperability problems. I've had trouble with my Apple Airport
card, for instance - something to do with short and long preamble
frames... a friend's cheap broadcom card can see it just fine.
I think I read WDS is being standardized
Vally is on the wrong side as to where this is pointed. I can get it
with no problems on elm st. at 1000 elm. There is now a repeater down on
889 Elm.
I've been on it a few times..
At my current apt. (literally next door to the main node for Manchester
wireless) it's so loud I get interference
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:46:54PM -0400, Travis Roy wrote:
> Manchester has wireless for most of downtown (www.manchesterwireless.org)
I've never been able to get this to work. I've tried with both my Apple
Powerbook (12" G4), Sony Vaio with D-link card, nor have my coworkers
with wireless been
Manchester has wireless for most of downtown (www.manchesterwireless.org)
Parts of Boston has free wifi, I know Akamai allows free web browsing.
Tobin hasn't offered specifics on paying for the antennas needed to cover the
city -- a cost that specialists say would run in the hundreds of thousands
> Tobin hasn't offered specifics on paying for the antennas needed to cover the
> city -- a cost that specialists say would run in the hundreds of thousands of
> dollars -- and the companies who would provide the wireless signals needed to
> log on to the Web. But he said a city the size of Bosto
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/09/02/councilor_envi
sions_citywide_wireless_web_access/
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