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Largest Citywide Wi-Fi Deployment
Grumpy writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that Aiirnet will begin installing, next month, the largest single Wi-Fi deployment in the nation in the city of Cerritos in Southern California. Ultimately, anyone with a laptop or wireless device will be able to surf the Web from virtually anywhere in the city's 8.6-square-mile area. Scores of wireless networking transmitters are being placed atop public buildings, traffic lights and other structures to blanket the city. The 51,000 residents of Cerritos have not had DSL broadband access to the Internet because the city is too far from the telephone company's central office and Cable Internet access has not been an option either."
Cerritos becomes the spam capital of the world
Finally, I know how that song goes!
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of Cerritos, rising up throught the air
Now I know where to go on my next road trip!
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when someone has the opportunity to be exposed to online pr0n and Slashdot.
Just make sure Goatse man isn't driving the welcome wagon.
I'm sure he'll know it's you if you are driving your car with no pants on, heading the wrong way down a one-way street, and are downloading kiddie porn.
I live in Magnolia
Awesome!!! Do you know Genghis Khan?
Perhaps the traffic Jams are caused by it?
"Damn, Slashdot posted another article." Scrreeech
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Well consider this the test bed I guess. Keep an eye on the cancer statistics!
I also have personal experience from parents complaining about WiFi networks on schools irradiating the children. My usualy response is that the microwave energy put out by the access points are typically 1/30th the power of your average cell phone, and that it's unlikely anyone will be holding the access point up to their head. Get some strange looks from tht one...
Of course, when I say I'm an engineer, I've had more than one parent (and teachers) ask me what trains have to do with it. (And I wish that was a joke)
=Smidge=
You goddamn communists! Who ever heard of consumers getting something for free? Is it saturated with ads? Is there a phantom charge on your water bill? Do your local politicians reward someone with inflated contracts ultimately paid for by you? There's got to be a catch.
With no broadband, the thought of 51,000 people all sharing a 56k dialup connection sounds appealing.
You don't understand...the residents couldn't get ANY broadband internet access at all, save maybe satellite, because the cable and DSL providers royally screwed them.
Even if just to piss off the companies that did this to them, this was a good move. Also, the city has a TON of extra cash from the Cerritos Auto Square. (it's a place smack dab 10 minutes from nowhere) The Auto Square has like 20-25 different car dealerships, and they pay rent and taxes to the city.
While the residents aren't necessarily the most affluent, the city's got enough to do this even if it was at a loss, just to make their constituents happy.
It's like in SimCity...is was a big thing left on their "citizens unhappy" list and it didn't cost all that much to knock out.
Can we please abandon the phrase "Surf the web" to Sunday supplement columnists and others of a related ilk?
I'll second that. I vote for "Ride the information superhighway" as a more serious-sounding expression myself.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
If Gov. Schwarzeneggar suspects that this is the proto-SkyNet, he will move to shut it down.
After all, that's what we elected him for: to steer us towards an alternate future!
Reading Slashdot is ruining my spelling and grammar.
If I were Emporer of Cerritos, I would RIP OUT each and every public phone. I would install VOIP public pay phones using the wireless network.
I would then load all the payphones into the back of a truck, and send them to the local phone company, with a note telling them about how they could have had their business if they would have just built out their network.
Then I'd offer discounts to all residents to sign up for the VOIP service, and ditch their phone company land lines.
Then I'd install Anti-gravity devices under the city, and float it up into the air, and just dump all of the city garbage onto Huntington Beach, or Rolling Hills.
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.