(Take a look at this excellent page designed by Ottawa Wireless's PR firm: it's exactly the kind of clueful PR that should be encouraged: he's putting his money-or maps-where his mouth is.) (Dissenters, please write in.) While there are plans for Cerritos, Santa Clara, and Chaska (Minnesota) to have full coverage, Grand Haven may have beaten them to full deployment. Grand Haven, Mich., makes splash with full-city Wi-Fi coverage: This seems like yet another city announcement, but it might be the first city with this scale of access that 100-percent live and commercially available. Posted by Glenn Fleishman at 6:11 PM | Permanent Link | Categories: Municipal The sixth, IDT Business Services, will provide telephone service via the Internet. The companies include well-known and never-heard-of-'em: the New York Post says they are two cellular providers, Nextel and T-Mobile, three non-cellular companies, ClearLinx Network Corp., Crown Castle Solutions, and Dianet Communications. This endeavor could bring massively improved voice, 2.5G/3G cell data, and Wi-Fi into a city without ripping up all the roads once again or putting giant cell antennas on every last building. It's unclear precisely what kind of transmitters these will be, but you can bet your boppy that the goal will be wireless backhaul for the majority of the points using mesh or simple point-to-point. Posted by Glenn Fleishman at 12:59 PM | Permanent Link | Categories: Self-Promotion July 29, 2004ĭetails are sketchy, but New York City may allow six telecom firms to pay up to $25 million per year to install wireless transmitters on 18,000 lamp posts: The article is full of sturm und drang about health effects, but the real story is that the city is trying to counter its dead zones without tearing up the streets. Jiwire has a much more recent article that incorporates my knowledge on this subject. Turnkey Hot Spots: A now-abandoned ongoing article that described how to buy and use turnkey hotspots.Or did they? The story hasn't progressed much since a denial by AMD, and meetings between AMD and Austin Wireless City. AMD’s Stealthy Rollout Slips Up: The article on AMD allegedly plastering signs on hotspots in Austin and elsewhere that weren't signed up for AMD's free hotspot directory.A review of the WiFi Finder contributed by a reader.WPA for Free under Windows 2000: How to get a free tool for WIndows 2000 to handle WPA encryption.Weak Defense…But Getting Better: My ongoing revision to the current state of Wi-Fi security, currently slightly out of date.WPA’s Little Secret: The background on the No.The Path to 802.11i: My explanation of the roadmap to reaching full 802.11i encryption/authentication/integrity deployment.Weakness in Passphrase Choice in WPA Interface: Not one of our own stories, but a paper by Robert Moskowitz.The top 10 stories of the last 10 months are: Two were about Wi-Fi detectors, and the other two on unrelated topics.Īs security remains a hot issue in the industry in general, you can expect that we'll continue to follow it. Over the last 10 months, trends are clear, driven by Slashdot and other sites that refer traffic: the most popular single stories on the site focus on security - six out of 10 stories. What Interests You at Wi-Fi Networking News?Īnalyzing traffic since the start of extensive tracking of this site shows that readers like knowing about security flaws, improvements: It's a slow news day, and I've been looking at traffic analysis of Wi-Fi Networking News to see what our top stories have been since we started using Omniture reporting last fall. Vertical Markets Academia Enterprise WLAN Switches Home Hot Spot Aggregators Hot Spot Advertising Road Warrior Roaming Libraries Location Medical Public Safety Residential Rural SOHO Small-Medium Sized Business Universities Utilities wISP Transportation and Lodging Air Travel Aquatic Commuting Hotels Rails Metro-Scale Networks Community Networking Municipalīroadband Wireless Cellular 2.5G and 3G 4G Power Line SatelliteĪdministrative Detail April Fool's Blogging Book review Cluelessness Guest Commentary History Humor Self-Promotion Unique Wee-Fi Who's Hot Today? Industry Conferences Financial Free Health Legal Research Vendor analysis Hardware Adapters Appliances Chips Consumer Electronics Gaming Home Entertainment Music Photography Video Gadgets Mesh Monitoring and Testing PDAs Phones Smartphones
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