Municipal WiFi Moves Ahead In Houston

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @09:53AM from the right-model-this-time dept.

Highlander404 sends word of one city that is bucking the trend of failing city Wi-Fi projects: Houston is investing most of the $5 million Earthlink paid to get out of its muni Wi-Fi contract to build out 10 free wireless network "bubbles" in low-income parts of the city. Access points will be in city-owned facilities to keep costs down. Houston's mayor said that over the long term the bubbles could be connected and the areas between them added to the network. The activation of the first of these zones was announced Monday. Upload and download speeds are said to be 3 Mbps.

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orly by whiskey6 · 2008-03-25 10:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

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Re:there is no such thing as free by YrWrstNtmr · 2008-03-25 12:27 · Score: 0, Flamebait

My point is that the poor user won't usually be able to tell the difference between an intentionally open vs accidentally open network.

Maybe the muni network SSID should be something like "Houston Open Access Network". Easy to make it unambiguous.
Re:there is no such thing as free by YrWrstNtmr · 2008-03-25 14:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Make it obvious. "This WiFi is free to use. Just don't screw it up"