Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

San Francisco's Got Free Wi-Fi

Posted by timothy on from the leave-your-heart-and-brain dept.

Carpoolio writes "If you're living in San Francisco, chances are you can connect, for free, to the BARWN -- the Bay Area Research Wireless Network. BARWN broadcasts an 802.11 signal from the top of a big hill near San Francisco, and anyone with a clear sight line to the signal can connect. Another set of wireless nodes are being placed around town by SFLan, making Wi-Fi available to tens of thousands of people."

13 of 156 comments (clear)

  1. WHA? by gantrep · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't believe you all are talking about this when people and BSD are dying in IRaq.

  2. frost pr1sttttt!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    w00t

  3. porn in my skull by OwlofCreamCheese · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and now, we can all sleep soundly, knowing that waves of porn are always in the air around us

    --
    -You're wasting your time. Alfador only likes me.
  4. Woohoo!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now I can go out and get that nice Apple Powerbook with an airport card I've always wanted!!!

  5. The Nodes: First Poest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hear the towers with the nodes
    Wifi nodes!
    What a world of merriment their melody forebodes!
    How they ping, ping, ping,
    In the icy net of night!
    While the stars that overspring
    All the heavens, seem to sing,
    With a crystalline delight;
    Keeping time, time, time,
    In a sort of Runic rhyme,
    To the tintinnabulation that so musically downloads
    From the nodes, nodes, nodes, nodes,
    Nodes, nodes, nodes -
    From the jingling and the pinging of the nodes.

    I'm Edgar Allen Poe, and I approve this message because it's time to take our bandwidth back.

  6. So who is paying for this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is it this guy?

  7. I've used Kile Bile before! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I go with some friends tonight to see the new movie The
    Gospel of John in our local cinemaplex. Halfway
    through the movie I'm about to cork off and decide to liven
    things up a little in the theater.

    Unknown to my friends, I had eaten several bowls of cereal
    and milk earlier and I'm basically lactose intolerant.
    What this boils down to is that the cereal and milk ferment
    in my gut and give me really raunchy gas about 2 hours
    after I down them.

    Well, the gas attack happens on schedule and I proceed to
    start stinking up the theater with SBDs! Beside me is an
    oriental couple and their little girl is sitting in the
    seat right next to me. She was getting the brunt of the
    noxious fumes, and after 30 minutes of getting gassed she
    was in tears and sobbing out loud to her mother that "I
    WANNA GO HOOOOOME MOMMY".

    It was all I could do to keep from busting out laughing.

    Of course, you could hear other people sitting in front of
    and behind me complain about the stench too. Isn't life
    grand?

    1. Re:I've used Kile Bile before! by torgosan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      OT...but what the heck.

      More proff that posting as AC should be eliminated from /.; there are legit times to do so but my money is on the hunch that those situations are far outweighed by the inane blathering as in the parent.

      --
      "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand". -Milton F.
  8. No text ... avoild Salashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  9. Re:Free? by Limburgher · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Thank you for making me spray coffee on my co-worker's face. :)

    You were joking, I hope?

    --

    You are not the customer.

  10. Eff that. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We need free wifi in downtown st petersburg florida.

    1. Re:Eff that. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Hey, I live in st pete's too. What's your address?

  11. Re:Ann Coulter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (RWMP) Right Wing Meat Puppet.
    Far better looking than the average RWMP.