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Community Wifi Feeds Community Cable in NYC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-see-what-i-stream dept.

akb writes "Manhattan Neighborhood Network has embarked on a project to combine two community networking communities in NYC, the nascent community wifi network on that isle with public access cable TV. The project has successfully conducted a test which involved cablecasting an mpeg4 video stream being transported by the nycwireless.net wireless node in Bryant Park."

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  1. ambitious at best by myrashka · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps someday soon this will be practical - but for now, WiFi has too many disdvantages:

    1) Bandwidth - even on the newer 54Mbps feed will quickly become saturated
    2) QoS is still a pipe dream
    3) Microwave ovens - still a predominant feature of many people's homes.

    And with HDTV coming out - will we really want to be stuck with 320x200 doubled at 15fps for our TV? Might be a novelty or convenient when you want to watch something important when you're away from home - but seems to me that until WiFi becomes more hardwire-ish, this is a project best left for the novelty that it is. Continue to wokr on giving free ubiquitous wifi on a grand scale (i.e. bigger than just NYC)....

  2. I'm tired of this... by hackwrench · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tell them to feed themselves.