Wireless Hotspots in a Large Environment?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday February 24, 2004 @11:30AM from the widespread-working-wifi dept.

matth asks: "So here at work we provide wireless internet access to customers all over our city, and into suburbia, via Alvarion radio gear. We have a large number of customers that are places like pubs, libraries, restaurants, etc. We would like to, in conjunction with these locations, setup up a public Wi-Fi network. The problem is getting the mac address back through to a central authorization server. What experience have others had in setting up a Wi-Fi hotspot network over a city, and allowing a user to register at one location and get on at any of the various locales?"

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Allegany County Maryland by ej0c · 2004-02-25 01:12 · Score: 2, Informative

You may not want to follow folks who can't spell Allegheny, but the leaders of the Cumberland Gap area have set a pretty audacious task. They want people in their remote mountain area to all have access.
http://www.gov.allconet.org/about.htm

Allconet2 seems to be the wifi part:
http://prime.allconet.org/allconet2/

http://gov.allconet.org/tech/welcome.htm

Ed