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802.11b Urban Network - 3 sq km!

Posted by Hemos on from the spreading-the-net-wide dept.

wireless junkie writes "NZ Herald has an article about a 3 sq km wireless network. Roaming, seamless handoff, VoIP, and its only the demonstration network. 100 sq/km coming soon (according to the RoamAD site) MiniStumbler on an iPaq shows a whole heap of signal on and near downtown Queen Street. All I want for Christmas..."

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  1. sq/km? by Imabug · · Score: 3, Interesting

    what kind of unit is a sq/km?

    seriously now...this sounds kind of neat. cellular WiFi in a sense.

    i wonder what kind of interference it would cause to other devices on the same frequency (other WiFI devices not associated with their network, cordless phones, etc).

    and wouldn't this make drive by hacking easier? heck, you don't even need to drive by.

    I wonder how bandwidth changes with distance from the transmitters.

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  2. It's not that new... by Zakabog · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why is this even news? Wireless internet access that you have to pay for? Hasn't that been around for a while. There's also been free wireless internet access in other cities for a while, here's one in NYC http://www.nycwireless.net I haven't gone down there with my laptop and wireless network card yet but I'm sure it's probably very fast. Although you probably can't do anything fun (like share warez) because they would probably block certain ports (or wonder what this one person is using all the bandwidth for.) The NYC Wireless site has links to other places for free wireless internet access also. There's also people who just setup there own wireless internet access for the block or neighborhood. Letting everyone share there connection, for free. I guess it's news because it's going to be 100sq km, but I can drive across Manhatten and stay online the whole time, there are some huge wireless networks available already.

  3. Re:Off Topic Question about New Zealand by nightsweat · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migration/index.htm l Score your chance to migrate to New Zealand. If you have IT experience and a degree, you're pretty much in.

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  4. Citynets by bwt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pretty soon people will be able to set up a CityNet: imagine everybody gathering together on a common IP subnet just like your home LAN except that it's multiple people who show up anonymously by simply setting their IP to within a particular submask.

    This has got to be the RIAA absolute worst nightmare. With the Internet if you set up a service that an anonymous person can find and download files from, then so can they and they send you a C&D letter. With multi-user anonymous LANs, not only would they have to have a presense in each city, but even if they do, once they know that IP 198.168.31.331 is trading the whole Metallica collection, they have no way to track you down.

    Medium range wireless offers an opportunity to remove, at least locally, the last barrier to a truly free internet : corporate/government regulation of the backbone.