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 b
I think something that might work... Is making the portal an additional
Point of Sale of the store owner. Have an order entry system built into
the portal. When users place orders through the portal their account is
given time credits. Their beverage get delivered to the table. They pay
up their ca
it really already exists in DHCP extensions but there are lack of clients
using it ... ive always felt that there should be DHCP clients made
exclusively w/ wireless extensions that could do safe messaging/polling ...
(or overall work on establishing a secure protocol just for WiFi stuff -
somethin
I've tried verizon, and it rocks. Coverage everywhere, and it is
reasonably speedy (at least 56k most of the time)
Stay as far away from t-mobile as you can. I've used their network, and
I consistently get 80% packet loss and speeds around that of a 1200 bps
modem. It took 10 minutes to load yah
What if there were a coffee shop where coffee and snacks were free, but Internet
access, newspapers, power connections, copy machines, etc. had a fee, and to stay
there you had to spend a certain amount per hour. And if you could earn credit by
working there or providing your skilled labor - sys
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 Plotki
I'm sorry, I'd have to disagree. I've used T-mobile extensively in my
travels around the country, up to an including last week in Las Vegas and
have never experienced the speeds you mention. I generally find their
connection quite fast. I will probably be using them a lot less now that
they are doi
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 t
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
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-c
802.11g enhancement war heats up
802.11g has not been in the market for long, but different vendors already
compete with each other to make it go faster. Netgear recently launched its
Super-G chip, claiming it could reach speeds of up to 108 Mbps. Now D-Link
is bringing out a new chip, based on an
My primary interest here is in getting the data, so I'm not picky on how it
gets done (I agree that a home-brew poll is probably sub-ideal). I'm
willing to help in any way, meaning that if someone wants to deputize me to
act in the interests of NYCw, I can make some phone calls to polling firms
can we summarize quickly how this poll would further the NYCwireless
mission?
(and for god's sake, please clip your replies)
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 01:40 pm, freelance writer wrote:
My primary interest here is in getting the data, so I'm not picky on
how it gets done (I agree that a
Does anyone on list have any experience with either of these 802.11g
chipsets? The most important question for me is how do these compare to
the ORiNOCO Silver and and Cisco 350 for range when talking to 802.11b
networks?
Also what kind of driver support do they have. How good is the xBSD, Mac
OS
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