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Dayton, Ohio: Free City-Wide WiFi

Posted by timothy on from the approaching-normalcy dept.

_Bunny writes "The City of Dayton, Ohio announced a plan to make all of downtown a WiFi hotspot - and as of last week, the network is live. This makes Dayton the first Ohio city to offer free WiFi access. Approximately one square mile of downtown is now live, including Fifth Third Field, the Oregon District, Webster Station and RiverScape. The WiFi project is a public/private partnership not funded by taxpayers, and comes at no charge to the end user." (According to the linked story at WHIO-TV, the city is actually paying about $5,000 per year, with advertisers picking up the rest of the tab.)

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  1. History in the making by Anita+Coney · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a BIG event in history. Quite possibly the largest event ever. For the first time in history, there is actually a good reason to live in Ohio!

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    1. Re:History in the making by kc8apf · · Score: 2, Funny

      You mean the ice, snow, sleet, hail, rapid and large temperature changes, and lack of things to do weren't enough good reasons to live in Ohio?

      Unless you want to do RF research, go to one of a few quite good engineering schools, or just really enjoy using snow chains, you probably want to avoid Ohio even if it has free, public WiFi.

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    2. Re:History in the making by iamwahoo2 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You are not allowed to use snow chains in Ohio.

  2. Parking Lot LAN party! by Cruithne · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lets all do a parking lot lan party!

    Pay 4 bucks to park 24 hours, sit in your comfortable car with a laptop, and game it up on a free network... if only wireless didnt completely and totally suck for gaming :D

  3. Countdown in 3, 2, 1... by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 2, Funny

    For the randroids that will start bitching about this new network and how it prevents private companies from creating viable, competing WiFi networks in Dayton.

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  4. Re:City Wide? by EngrBohn · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm... I could scrap my cable modem and set up a Yagi pointing toward downtown Dayton. You think 20 or so elements would get me enough gain from Xenia?

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  5. Booyaka! Home, sweet home by AJYeary · · Score: 2, Funny

    Woot! It's not every day that my hometown is on the front page of Slashdot.

    Although I wish my submission would've been the one that was accepted. Oh well, I can hope for the dupe :-p

    ~aj~

  6. And the answer is... by fm6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's a good question. Answering it should help one or two lawyers put their kids through college.

  7. Re:City Wide? by jargoone · · Score: 2, Funny

    In these tight economic times, why would a city consider it a wise move to spend tax payer monies on project like this just escapes me. How is this system going to pay for itself?

    For fuck's sake, at least read the summary...

    The WiFi project is a public/private partnership not funded by taxpayers, and comes at no charge to the end user.

  8. Re:Uhm.. ok by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 2, Funny
    I think a different city would have benefited more.

    And Dayton should have funded this for some other city?

  9. Re:City Wide? by Rick.C · · Score: 3, Funny
    What more could I ask for?

    Fewer tornados?

    Yagi antennae attract tornados, you know.
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  10. Goin' to Visit Grandpa! by Aetrix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe I will go visit my grandfather in Dayton now...

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