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Adelaide Gets a Taste of Free WiFi
Anonymous Coward writes "Adelaide's Citilan network is being relaunched. Sometime in the last two weeks they decided to open it up for free use to anyone in Adelaide's CBD, pending full commercial launch.
Get in and find a hotspot while its hot!"
The first one's free, when you want some more you know where to come.
Sounds like a pretty sensible promotion.
Who said crack dealers have nothing to teach service providers?
Starsucks
Adelaide used to host the Australian Grand Prix, but the drivers fell asleep at the wheel when they saw the scenery.
What kind of fee will they be charging once it's commercial? Also, wouldn't it make sense to require people to register a free account so that the migration will be more structured?
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Hasn't Citilan always been open for free (at least for members of a long list of ISPs including Internode, Adam, Esc.Net, and others)?
I have used it on several occasions to grab files from the Node mirror instead of having to use dialup. It's even faster than my DSL if you can find a hotspot that isn't heavily used (sitting outside the State Library at 3am helps until you get arrested).
They are going to close it off soon AFIK - there are too many leechers. There's always a bunch of (no offence, but they are always) asians around some of the more public indoor hotspots (library, museum, etc) that bring desktop PCs, fold out tables and chairs, etc just to leech free Internet for the day. There was even one there that brought his 5.1 surround speakers and the stands for the rear ones were set up behind him - in the middle of they foyer.
I'm amazed that Citilan is still open to the public, actually - the ISPs are footing the bill and it's free, although I did hear talk that if you use a Node login on it you chew up your Node download quota for the month; but that was just a rumour, I've never heard proof of it.
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do we really need a story everytime a new city gets free wifi? It was cool and progressive the first dozen times it happened but now it's just about as exciting as reporting on SBC running fiber optic lines in a new area (which is to say, not very)
Won't identity theft be easier than ever? Now hackers can take down your information 5 miles away. They can just sit near the transmission towers. How can anyone secure their line without using a land line. Any attempt to establish a certain protocol or identity involves transmission of data, which will be intercepted and decrypted. Sure, we can just surf the web. But how about checking our email and posting on slashdot? We need to protect our DATA!
It makes very poor manners to name a city without naming the country you're talking about.
c ouncil-history.htm
Background on Adelaide in Australia - the one mentioned in the article:
http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/council/about/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide
'Citilan' was changed to 'Citylan' because Citibank sent nasty legal letters.
'Agile' as an SSID is probably because they're handling the hardware; I imagine they'll change it over when people are actually paying money for it.
actually, it is very flat, oh topographically challenged one
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From the people who brought you "extreme ADSL2+" while only enabling 4 actual exchanges.
This oughtta be a laugh.
You couldn't see it from the track, however, it isn't all that far away from the CBD - about 1/2 hours drive at "normal" person speed.
The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
The retirement capital of Australia, where most people don't have laptops and they temporarily roll out free Wireless networking. Wonderful.
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Adelaide is a fantastic city! Surrounded by park lands - great place to work and live. Great weather, wine beaches, food, dining entertainment, and free wireless!
Also: Wikipedia on Adelaide
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