wi-fi

Wi-Fi enabled shepherd's pie

adamg — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:50:27 +0000

Josh Ourisman says the Druid in Inman Square has the best shepherd's pie he's ever had - and free wireless to boot.

Free Wi-Fi to fly is nigh?

adamg — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:25:02 +0000

CNet: FCC: Boston airport can't block airline's Wi-Fi:

... Finally, Boston may get a chance to catch up with all of the other places that have free WiFi at the airport, with no thanks to AssPort. ...

In what is supposed to be a public place, it seems absurd to pay for wireless access, especially in a city that's supposed to be a high-tech leader.

Herald editor doesn't get brain tumor at Quincy Market

adamg — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:24:58 +0000

Herald Managing Editor Joe Dwinell checks in from the Quincy Market rotunda, where he files a blog post via the marketplace's free WiFi - and where he learns from a visiting Mayo Clinic physician that the wireless service won't be giving him a brain tumor:

... He has pulled up a seat next to me to blog along. He's also asking about Mitt Romney and how a liberal Massachusetts can elect a Mormon Republican. Checks and balances, I say. ...

Citywide wireless plan stupid and pointless, he says

adamg — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:12:40 +0000

John Keith explains why:

... Free and low-cost wireless is available - I use it all the time, at the public libraries in Copley Square and in the South End. Starbucks has monthly plans costing $29.99 and $39.99. The city has also announced plans to install wireless along its "Main Streets."

If there was a demand for wireless access, throughout the city, you can bet that a private company would have already entered the market.

That no one has, shows there is really no interest in this, beyond a few, good-intentioned, but misguided politicians. ...

No One's Stepping Up for City Wi-Fi in Boston?

sooz — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:50:10 +0000

The Boston Globe ran a story today titled "If we're Tech City, where's our WiFi?"

''No one's stepping up," said Michael Oh, a local technology executive and cofounder of the Boston Wireless Advocacy Group, a loose crew of volunteers pushing for more wireless access around town. "Boston is behind the curve on this compared to other cities."

Read the full story at boston.com.

Keeping the terrorists from winning at Logan

adamg — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:16:48 +0000

John isn't buying Massport's contention that it had to shut down free Wi-Fi competitors to its paid service at Logan for public-safety reasons:

... Critical public safety communications? This is about homeland security? Please. They must think we're idiots.

Logan Airport Seeks to Ban Free Wi-Fi

sooz — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:12:56 +0000

Continental Airlines is fighting for their right to offer free WiFi (info below) at Boston's Logan Airport.

To support free WiFi at Logan Airport and to prevent a chilling precedent in FCC policy, please submit a public comment to the FCC. This PDF has instructions for submitting comments, both by e-mail and snail mail.

[via Pat McCormick]

Article at Cnet:

Boston's Logan International Airport is attempting to pull the plug on Continental Airlines' free Wi-Fi node, which competes with the airport's $7.95-a-day pay service.

Philadelphia Selects 3 Finalist Consortia From Bidders for Citywide Wi-Fi Network Buildout

sooz — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:05:53 +0000

The Daily Item had a story yesterday about Philadelphia's plans to move forward with it's citywide Wi-Fi initiative. Thanks to Steve Ronan for the pointer to the article.

Wireless Philadelphia has chosen three finalists to design, deploy and maintain high-speed wireless Internet access in the city: consortiums led by AT&T, Hewlett-Packard and Earthlink.

Roslindale No-Fi

adamg — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:07:04 +0000

When I went down to Rozzie Square today for my weekly fix of chicken massaman curry, I took my laptop to try out this newfangled city-sponsored Wi-Fi hotspot. Bottom line: I should have left the laptop at home.

The full report:

Holy Toledo

adamg — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:45:32 +0000

According to an Intel survey, 12 metro regions have better overall wireless connectivity than Boston - including Minneapolis, Denver and Toledo, Ohio:

... Survey findings are based on the number of commercial and public or "free" wireless Internet access points (hotspots), airports with wireless Internet access, and broadband availability. The survey also included community wireless Internet access points, local wireless networks and wireless e-mail devices. ...

About BostonWAG

sooz — Fri, 27 May 2005 21:29:39 +0000

Boston Wireless Advocacy Group (BostonWAG) is a user group whose mission is to advocate, educate and inspire open, public Wi-Fi networks throughout greater Boston. On the second Wednesday of each month we meet at the Boston Wi-Fi Meetup. The BostonWAG website includes a directory of complimentary/free hotspots throughout greater Boston and reviews of the hotspots.

Coffee shop in Seattle turns off free Wi-Fi on weekends -- More to the story?

sooz — Fri, 27 May 2005 17:15:37 +0000

Glenn Fleishman at Wi-Fi Networking News wrote yesterday about a coffee shop in Seattle that decided to "experiment with taking back its culture by turning off the Wi-Fi juice on weekends."

In the story at Wi-Fi Networking News, coffee shop co-founder Jen Strongin said that before Wi-Fi, â€œPeople talked to each other, strangers met each other." Wi-Fi is pretty new as far as non-techies using it. As Voltaire once said "Common sense is not so common." I think that the cafe could keep their Wi-Fi open on the weekends if they helped educate their customers about free Wi-Fi etiquette. To many of us, it might just seem like common sense.

Bloggers at the Wi-Fi Summit

sooz — Mon, 23 May 2005 18:17:22 +0000

Two Boston area bloggers, Michael Feldman and Deborah Elizabeth Finn, attended last week's Boston Wi-Fi Meetup and wrote extensive summaries on each of their weblogs.

Michael wrote:

The session was called to order at 9:20 with a slide show from Adam Weiss, the museums's point man for the wi-fi project, giving an overview of what wireless technology is all about, and how the electromagnetic spectrum is divided up into hundreds of regulated and unregulated segments. Despite the well-known axiom that Powerpoint-type presentations have the highest noise to signal ratio known to man, this was a surprisingly useful overview, especially as it resonated in later references to open spectrum technologies. (The session was called to order at 9:20 with a slide show from Adam Weiss, the museums's point man for the wi-fi project, giving an overview of what wireless technology is all about, and how the electromagnetic spectrum is divided up into hundreds of regulated and unregulated segments. Despite the well-known axiom that Powerpoint-type presentations have the highest noise to signal ratio known to man, this was a surprisingly useful overview, especially as it resonated in later references to open spectrum technologies. (more)

Community Wi-Fi Forum: Notes and Photos

sooz — Mon, 16 May 2005 21:54:26 +0000

Community Wi-Fi Forum photograph taken by Steve Garfield.

Michael Oh put together these notes from the April 19, 2005 Boston Wi-Fi Community Forum at the Boston Public Library. Steve Garfield's video highlights of the event are on Councillor John Tobin's weblog.

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Boston Wi-Fi Meetup and Field Trip to Watch City Wireless Community Network in Waltham

sooz — Sat, 14 May 2005 04:10:24 +0000

The Boston Wi-Fi Meetup happens the second Wednesday of each month. The next meetup is on Wednesday, June 8th.

At the June Meetup we'll be meeting in Waltham for a field trip along the Watch City Wireless community network on Moody Street. Thomas McGonagle and Robbert Abbott, the project founders, will walk us through the project and describe their process and vision to make things happen. If you're curious about what it takes to set up a community-based Wi-Fi network in your neighborhood this will be a good opportunity to ask questions and learn more.