San franciso went with the Google/Earthlink partnership for bringing metro Wifi to the city. The partnership will be free for the city and provide free access to visitors and residents. There is talk of a pay service above the free, but presumably that means an ad free experience and uncapped speed. The decision was met… Continue Reading
Daily Archives: April 7, 2006
The Revolution Will Be Wireless
The City of Santa Monica is rolling out a Municipal Wi-Fi system in select parts of the city. The logic being that it’s another service the city can offer to it’s visitors and residents. With the number of high tech companies around, it makes the city just that more attactive if they can offer to… Continue Reading
Canadian WiMAX Network Launched
Canadian Telco’s Rogers’s and Bell have partnered to launch a WiMax network in various areas across the country. The new service offers 512Kbps and 3Mbps from Bell and Rogers is offering 1.5 Mbps service. Bothe companies offerings are comparible to thier wired broadband offerings. This should help provide remote and rural customers with the advantages… Continue Reading
Ofcom Starts Radio Spectrum Sale
Ofcom in the UK is starting to sell off parts of the spectrum for new mobile broadband and multimedia applications. The plan is to sell of 40Mhz to start with, eventually selling 400Mhz worth over the next few years. This availability of spectrum should lead to some interesting new technologies. Via [news.bbc.co.uk]… Continue Reading
Introduction To Kismet
Kismet, like Netstumbler, is one of the defacto wardriving and wireless troubleshooting apps available for free to the public. Kismet, unlike Netstumbler has a number of features that make it a much more useful tool for network discovery and reconnisence. If you have not tried Kismet, you really should. It’s a great tool to have… Continue Reading
Wardrivers And Leeches And Hackers, Oh My!
With all the press lately about people abusing others open WiFi AP’s, you think security is getting better. Well it’s not. Police are still playing catch up and the law is still pretty vague. Given the consiquences of someone abusing your AP, it’s as good an idea as ever to lock it down securly. Via… Continue Reading