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Get Your 802.11 Media Fix From SeattleWireless TV
Michael Pierce writes "SeattleWireless TV brings you the latest information on Community, Corporate, and Home Wireless applications, hardware, security, and innovators in the field. July 2003 Show Summary: On this month's show, Peter and Michael report on the wireless project called 'SnowNet,' a project where Casey Halverson plans to use mountain tops to connect communities via a 802.11b backbone. We then check out the first link connected to SnowNet. TacomaNode,' located in Tacoma, Wa. It will connect to Seattle via a wireless backbone through SnowNet. Scott Kennedy, the owner of the Drinkmore Café, tells us why he has decided to provide free WiFi to his customers while other places charge. And finally we had a chance to try out a new Linux embedded product called the Prismiq MediaPlayer. Using this device, you no longer have to watch your media files on your small computer monitor. Using a wireless card, it can hook up to your network anywhere! You can view by choosing your player: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer. If for some reason they don't stream there are some download links on the site. Also, if the stream links get messed up for any reason they are on the site, too." SnowNet is too cool to ignore.
This sounds like a cool idea until someone gets pissed at a TV show and decides to DDOS the TV Station.
Sweet, imagine all of that unencrypted, insecure pr0n beaming through the Rockies.........
Good choice of name, maybe they have come up with a signal drop interface that just creates snow on your screen when you experience data stream dropout. Then you would actually think you are watching tv.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
IAALS.
On a similar topic, if you are in the Seattle area on August 30th, you should check out the Wireless Field Day. We will be creating a number of links between various parks in the Seattle area. Plus, we hope to connect to SnowNet and use it to link with Tacoma. I will be demonstrating iChat AV over wireless so people will be able to see the advantages of having a public community wireless network. Be sure to come check us out!
Nice advertisement. Of course, I don't live in Seattle, so I can't watch the show. Which begs the question, why is this on Slashdot at all? I mean, other than the fact that we keep seeing suspicious "ad-like" stories on a daily basis...
Mountaineer WEP hacking!!
First team to reach the summit and retrieve the WEP key wins.
Finaly a geek gets on ESPN2!
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"And our top news headline tonight, SnowNet, the ubiquitous free Wireless ISP found throughout the greater Seattle area, has been sued into oblivion by the RIAA after failing to be able to identify specific users on their network found to be file sharing...."
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
I've really been thinking of getting one of these, but so far the reviews have been less than stellar. Not that that the product is bad, but few of them really tell anything more than what I can read on the product homepage. Does it work well? Is it hard to use? Does it have a hard time with video formats or is the decode pretty rebust? How good is the Divx support? I've really wanted a cheap player that can access my library of videos, but I hear the comments that the windows software has short-commings. Any comments would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bel, the mostly sane.. "Of course I can't see anything! I'm standing on the shoulders of idiots." -- Me
I dont know about you guys, but that sounds an awfully lot like the TACOMA DOME.
Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY....free wifi access, first come first serve, SEE the mighty 54G crush all oncomers. Watch 802.11b, that scrappy kid, still hold up against the onslaught of oncomers. Witness the fall of the mighty BLUEtooth. Special appearance by Airport...EXTREME! this sunday, at the TACOMA DOME...i mean NODE!
"Once upon a time men were lions and machines were mice, but since it was so long ago, now its twice upon a time."
doesn't this article seem like an advert?
Yes, but at least it's not astroturfing.
The story was submitted by Michael Pierce, and the email addy for his story submission is michael@gir.seattlewireless.net
Of course he sounds like he's advertizing Seattle Wireless -- he is -- but he's honest and forthright about it.
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Seattle Wireless actually talked about this earlier this week on the NPR affil in Seattle, KUOW-FM, during the Weekday program. It's pretty interesting stuff ... if it all works out. The KUOW.org site has an audio stream of the hour-long show.
One challenge is convincing the masses, who already are just starting to understand what Wi-Fi is, that Wi-Fi ISN'T just wireless Internet ... that's it creates a wireless network that can move damn near anything digital without ever touching the Internet(voice, video ... bits is bits). But perception lags reality.
Isn't it a bit insecure for it to scan the entire hard disk drive of an old Windows machine for media files?
:-)
The PRISMIQ software asks you which directory you want to scan and what file extensions to look for.
How secure is the communication if one decides to use it in its wireless incarnation?
Someone who could sniff your wireless traffic could probably snarf a copy of the audio and video streams. So if you're paranoid, don't stream your steamy home movies over wireless
If you are interested in seeing a lot of real users discussing the PRISMIQ box, go to www.prismiq.ORG and click on "forums".
A dingo ate my sig...