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Verizon Pulling Plug on Free Wi-Fi in NYC
Cashen writes "'Verizon Communications Inc. is turning off the free wireless Internet access it beams from New York City telephone booths for DSL subscribers who use laptops away from home or the office.' Full article here. Is it just a coincidence Verizon is expanding its EV-DO in New York at the same time? Guess we have to pay to play now ... The real question is, when is EV-DO coming to Michigan?"
people will just use the access points around...
come on anyone who buys a router now gets wifi on it and they leave it open OR you just discover the keys and break in (yeah it takes a while but thats life)
realistically wifi is here to stay and its kind of free (to those in the know)
most of the students I know dont pay they just leach of others bandwidth or plug into uni...
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John Jones
with their own gear.
As far as I'm concerned, if it's their stuff, it's their call. I DO have an issue with their lobbyists getting legislation passed that forbids other people from doing the same thing.
Take your trucks and go home, Verizon. Leave my toys alone.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
The key phrase in the article is "better business model" = "way to make as much money as possible without being forced out of the market by competitors"
where's all that Karma?
How do you pull the plug on wireless?
"The real question is, when is EV-DO coming to michigan?"
I live in Alabama, you insensitive clod!
Get yourself down Starbucks - coffee and WiFi!
Well, at least WiFi...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
come on anyone who buys a router now gets wifi on it and they leave it open OR you just discover the keys and break in (yeah it takes a while but thats life)
Using an open access point is cool. I leave mine open and people are free to use it. Using a network that has keys on it is uncool. That is criminal because you actually are breaking into a system to use it. It is also stupid because most of closed networks are corporate network that have people monitoring them. There is enough open access points that spending the time breaking into a closed one is a waste of time anyway. I think most people breaking into closed networks do it more for the l33t factor despite being script kiddies.
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I work for a municipality in the Tampabay FL area. We are rolling out quite a few EVDO installs,
and "per Verizon" we are one of their Bigger customers in this market.
The area I'm in is "Very heavily covered" (per Verizon) for EVDO access which is the broadband side,
and you automatically flip-dlop between that and the 1xRTT which is the "National Access" part of the system.
The EVDO if your lucky gets you anywhere from 350 to 768kbps (Don't use the Venturi Client)
while the 1xRTT drops you to 28,8 to 76kbps.
For an area that is "Heavily covered" I have had nothing but trouble staying in the EVDO side consistently.
However, If you need decent wireless connectivity because your on the road allot working from your car it
is better than nothing. Just a little steep on the price for the quality of the service.
I think that Verizon got a little ahead of themselves as they did when they first rolled out their DSL years ago.
I had to teach their engineers how to configure that for this area as well, not to mention teach the linemen
that bridge taps are bad as is fiber for DSL, but I digress
I am a technical support coordinator for Verizon wireless. I can tell you that EV-DO uses a CDMA cellular signal for the entire EV-DO capable part of the Verizon network. CDMA networks operate at either 800 or 1900 mhz which is HIGHLY regulated (and costly) spectrum. EV-DO is not an 802.11 technology from our end but as with most ISP's what you do with your bandwidth once you get it is up to you. You can set it up with a Wi-Fi router on your end but then as with anything else you are responsible for the security of the network that you set up.