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Oakland County to go Wireless

Posted by Zonk on from the yay-civics-projects dept.

y00nix writes "Oakland County, MI has plans to roll out a wireless Internet access program dubbed "Wireless Oakland" covering all 910 square miles inside the county. County Executive L. Brooks Patterson unveiled the plans at last night's State of the County address. Additional press coverage via the Oakland Press, and the The Detroit News." Similar in concept to Philadelphia's plans covered yesterday.

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  1. Breaking News by mg2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone in Oakland right now is encouraged to help beta test the network. All you need is an 802.11 enabled card, and the SSID is 'linksys.'

    If you're having any trouble, just go ahead and access http://192.168.1.1. Leave the username box blank and the password is 'admin.'

    Thanks.

  2. First one to infect the service wins... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...Complete control of a large chain of wi-fi zombie PC's in the waiting.

  3. not Oakland, CA by krunk4ever · · Score: 1, Funny

    darn! i was read this title thinking this was Oakland, CA.

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