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New York To Get Free Wi-Fi Network Via Livery Cabs
AndyAndyAndyAndy writes "NYC may finally have a viable plan for free, ad-supported public Wi-Fi service. A company named LimoRes Car & Limo plans to roll out 1,000 cars with transmitters by the fall, and 20,000 by 2011, providing in-car Wi-Fi and externally with a radius of 200 feet. Each car will be able to support up to 16 separate connections. It may be a long shot to say this will provide complete coverage in Manhattan, but if each cab company in New York got onboard... although the brief article notes that the tougher regulation environment for taxicabs means that Wi-Fi won't be coming to Yellow Cabs any time soon."
Moving? This is New York City we're talking about.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Unless they plan on parking the cars a lot, I don't see how this can be useful. Once the car goes down the block it will be out of range and the connection will drop. Won't matter if another one is behind it since it won't be the same connection so no auto-reconnect either.
Attention... all grammer nazi"s! Is they're anything; wrong with: my post,
Finally, I get to shout:
FOLLOW THAT CAB!
unless they get open source drivers!
--- You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad- Neal (not Cowboy) Boortz
A livery cab is a cab for point-to-point rental. It is not a yellow taxi cab that you can hail from the curb. It's what you get when someone says, "I've called a car for you. You'll be dropped off at the client's at 10."