[nycwireless] Earthlink Anaheim

2006-07-03 Thread Kimo Crossman
Thanks Rob you are right - I should have said Misleading. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/

[nycwireless] Re: wireless card

2006-07-03 Thread Zephyr Stormrider
I'm thinking about getting a new wireless card. I currently use a Linksys card which I bought four years ago. I'm looking for one that has excellent reception and is compatible with most routers. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. I was walking in the computer department of a store a coupl

Re: [nycwireless] SF WiFi: BREAKING...

2006-07-03 Thread Bob Keyes
While we're here, let me talk about some muni wifi things that I've figured out. While this post is long, please don't consider it a finished document. There's some wordsmithing, and documentation of some of the claims I make, which still needs to be done. This will happen. Eventually. Firstly,

Re: [nycwireless] SF WiFi: BREAKING...

2006-07-03 Thread rob
Kimo: That headline is misleading just like the original article. Earthlink is playing up what, IMHO, is essentially non-news. They're starting their rollout. Big deal. They'll be done in December. They don't say what done means. Pretty cheap. But nowhere in their materials do they say

[nycwireless] SF WiFi: BREAKING Earthlink lies about Anahiem city wide rollout

2006-07-03 Thread Kimo Crossman
Earthlink issued a Press Release indicating they have launched City Wide coverage for Anaheim on 6/29 Guess what? It's only a Downtown 6 mile pilot, even their coverage map shows this to be the case see here: http://www.emnwifi.com/cities/anaheim/ Here's minutes from a 5/30/06 City Counci

[nycwireless] SF WiFi: Earthlink bets the farm on uncertain Municipal WiFi - Analysts skeptical & Earthlink declines to bid the Silicon Valley WiFi Joint Venture

2006-07-03 Thread Kimo Crossman
(In May Earthlink was suggesting that they wanted to franchise out some of their contracts - that received a poor response - Now news that Earthlink explicitly declined the Silicon Valley WiFi Joint venture. Cnet has a fairly devastating report on their prospects (below) and the Anaheim roll

re: [nycwireless] Help Needed: City-wide Wi-Fi survey mapping project

2006-07-03 Thread Frank Coluccio
Dana, wWill NYCW make use of the city's GIS-Mapping services? http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/mp/Portal.do http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/html/eservices/eservices_gis.shtml -- Frank A. Coluccio DTI Consulting Inc. 212-587-8150 Office 347-526-6788 Mobile -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ U

[nycwireless] Newsday: NYC unplugged: Parks going wireless

2006-07-03 Thread Dana Spiegel
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny- nywifi034805398jul03,0,343914.story NYC unplugged: Parks going wireless BY MELANIE LEFKOWITZ Newsday Staff Writer July 3, 2006 For nearly 150 years, Central Park has been an urban oasis, a place where harried denizens of the concrete jungle can