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The Wifi Slugfest Over Portland's PGE Park

Posted by timothy on from the how-bout-them-buggywhips dept.

tomwhore writes "Portland's community wireless networking group, Personal Telco Project (PTP), recently knocked one into the ball park with a new WiFi node. The new node covers the area around and inside of Portland's PGE Ballpark. While free internet access would be welcome by most, PGE Park managers are not happy. They recently cut a deal giving Comcast exclusive rights to do up their networking. 'This is our stadium, and we run the communications for it,' said Chris Metz, a PGE Park spokesman. To find out more about the impact of the PTPs latest home run check out this article in the Oregonian and over at the PTP's website." Let's hope the park also puts a Faraday cage around the whole park to ensure radio silence.

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  1. Re:That's not gay, that's terrorism by falcon5768 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Interesting granted the hospital near my house has JUST SUCH A DEVICE, to block cellphone transmitions from entering the hospital. Dont ask me how, cause they refuse to tell me or let me see this device, but sure enough anytime I drive by on my way to the parkway the cellphone cuts out right at the hospital when I had a full signal 2 feet in front of and beyond the area.

    and yes this is some sort of device, there are signs saying that cellphone signals are blocked all over the hospital.

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  2. PGE Park has bigger problems... by Beek+Dog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First off, PGE is owned by Enron. Portland wants to buy it, but Enron wants to dissect it and sell the assets to pay off debts, and have rate-payers help with the debt. OK, not exactly, but something like that. Second, nobody wants to own PGE Park. It's not profitable. Our weeklies usually have a least one article a month about some poor, old, rich bastard who can't pay the City of Portland for rent. Third, PGE Park lost power not too long ago. This is the park with Portland General Electric in the name! They can't even keep their own power on! Blocking Wi-Fi? It's probably science fiction to them. I agree with a previous poster, this is no slugfest. This is a bloated 600-pound gorilla complaining about someone else's scent covering their foul odor... BTW, Portland itself kicks major yahoo.