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WiFi On Two Wheels

Posted by timothy on from the steve-mcqueen dept.

MeGaBiTe1 writes "Yury Gitman is not the average cyclist from Brooklyn. His goal is to bring more easily accessible free wireless hotspots to the masses. To do this, he has created what he calls the Magicbike, a bicycle equipped with a laptop, power supply and antenna. Gitman's bike has allowed people in NYC to browse the internet freely in local parks and gardens. 'I am like the ice cream man, but with no music and I deliver free wireless access and not ice cream'."

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  1. He gives people internet... by anethema · · Score: -1, Redundant

    but how does HE get the internet to his laptop ?

    Some directional antenna somewhere that he points beforehand ? His own directional antenna that he uses to leech from other free hotspots?

    (I obviously didnt RTFA, too lazy to pick thru his site to find out)

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