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Rio Rancho, New Mexico: 103 Square Miles of WiFi
An anonymous reader submits "Rio Rancho, New Mexico is going to have 103 square miles of wifi coverage thanks to Intel & Usurf. The Albuquerque International Airport also has free wifi available. (By the way, Rio Rancho also has one of the largest chip factories in the world. Owned by Intel of course.)" The airport service will be free, but though the site is coy about pricing, users will need to sign up (and pay) for the Rio Rancho mesh network. Update: 06/20 03:56 GMT by T : Rio Rancho, not Rio Ranch. Mea culpa.
Seems like the cost of bandwidth would be trivial. If it is actually possible to stop using land lines all together, then the majority of the costs would be associated with maintaining WiFi equipment. You wouldn't be paying an ISP to make sure that you are connected, it's your responsibility.
Of course, this would be in a utopian WiFi world.
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You beat me to it :P
Anyway, about that warm summer nights thing. The only place I have lived in New Mexico that stays warm at night is Albuquerque, because all the concrete absorbs the heat all day and then releases it all night. Most everywhere else is wonderfull at night. That is actually one of my favorite things about the desert climate - no matter how hot it gets during the day it still cools down at night due to having no humidity. I can't stand being out in the East or down the South during the summer, where it is hot and muggy all day and then warm and muggy all night.
During the 2004 Balloon fiesta you can bet people will be using their laptops in mid air.
build it!
Nobody is stopping you from getting your broadband enabled neigbors together and aggregating your bandwidth.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
You forget just how easy it is to clone/fake a mac address.
That is not too hard, even for idiotic scum who are trying to cover their tracks.
Just wait until they start figuring out how (with subpeonas) to cross reference the mac address to the distributor it was sold to, and then cross-reference that against the serial number on your receipt.
You do buy all of your ethernet/wifi cards with cash, don't you?
Just wait until it is YOUR mac address they have cloned. The Melinda virus escapade a few years ago shows that a mac address is sufficient for a search warrant.
Uhh, think again. Ever read the Terms of Service you agreed to? Unless you and your neighbors are all lucky enough to have one of the few providers that allows bandwidth sharing, you'll soon see huge fines or just termination of your service if you setup a wireless network.
--Quentin