Is there a new survey of "unwired" cities?The last survey I could find was from 2005 and lists New York City as 21st, which is pathetic. Not only are cities like Denver and Toledo ahead of New York, but Baton Rouge, Louisiana is ahead as well. When it comes to technology, New York has fallen far behind. 2005 - http://www.ritebrain.net/html/unwired_cities.html If anyone has a survey for 2006, let me know. Wi-Fi to Go: The Hot Spot in a BoxHave you ever thought about having the ability to take a box with you and just plug it into an electrical outlet to have a Wi-Fi hotspot? There are companies that have items like this right now. Companies like Kyocera, Junxion, and Top Global are currently making them. There is one thing you have to have to make them work. You need the cellular PC Card that gives the box a 3G high-speed cellular connection. But that is the only thing it needs, besides electricity. The beauty of these devices is that they could be installed in city buses, commuter trains, and even taxi cabs. You could even buy a box like this if you were already using a 3G service for your laptop on the go and use it to power your wifi network at home. New York City lacks in the Wi-Fi...Surprise, New York City falls behind a lot of other major cities in the US for it's Wi-Fi connectivity. I know it isn't a big surprise at all. But it is funny that NYC didn't even make the top 5. The top 5 consists of Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Portland, Atlanta. It is sad that the largest city in the US doesn't have a Wi-Fi system of their own. Long Island RR needs to have Wi-Fi...I have been commuting into New York City from Long Island for about a year and a half now and I think that the MTA and the LIRR are missing out on a cash cow. The cash cow that I am talking about is having Wi-Fi on the trains. I ride the train everyday for 3 hours round trip and see many people using their laptops working while they are on the train. I see many others that have their laptops stored in the luggage racks. These are people that would be more than willing to shell out $30 a month for internet access on the train. I know I would be up for it. It would give me and others the ability to check our work email before we got in. It would give us the ability to care of work by logging into our company networks that we couldn't do otherwise. I think it would also increase riders on the train. There are still many that drive into work from Long Island and they would be more motivated to ride the train if they knew they could browse the internet from the train. All in all, the MTA is just passing up a great opportunity. The resource is already being provided for public transportation and commuter rail users in such major cities as London, Paris, Seattle, the Bay Area, Tokyo, and Chennai, India. Lufthansa and other airlines are also already offering Wi-Fi upwards of six miles in the air. With the volume of commuters that NYC has, it seems like we should already have wi-fi, not wondering when or if it will happen. Are Cantennas Now Illegal Too??Well maybe if you live in California they are. At least according to the head of the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Froce they are. He was quoted as saying "They're unsophisticated but reliable, and it's illegal to possess them." What a joke, what's next banning Pringles? Wi-Fi Networks...Ever wanted to see what Wi-Fi networks are around you? I mean even the ones that aren't sending out there SSID's? Do you have a Wi-Fi card in your computer? Then you need to try this program: NetStumbler
Verizon pulls free Wi-Fi plug...Aparently Verizon has had a change of heart. Back in 2003 they started rolling out their free Wi-Fi access to all of their DSL subscribers in the New York City area. They had been putting the wireless connections into their existing Verizon phone booths. But now they are going to be turning those already existing access points off as well in favor of accelerating their fee-based cellular access in the NYC area. The question is why not keep those access points in place and when they break, just don't fix them. It wasn't really costing them anything seeing that they already owned the phone booths. My guess is that if they show how well Wi-Fi networks work at providing access they may give ideas to towns that want to give their citizens access to the internet as a municipal service. |
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