wifi

Boston-area WiFi provider sues Google over privacy issues

adamg — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:26:21 +0000

Galaxy Internet Services, which runs Brookline's townwide WiFi network, charges the wireless system Google used as it took Street View photos collected data on at least one occasion from Brookline wireless users.

Massport making free WiFi permanent for the next two years minimum

Kaz — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:20:21 +0000

Massport has announced today that they are offering free Wifi for the next two years! Since Thanksgiving, WiFi access has been free at Logan and other airports around the country due to a sponsorship deal with Google to provide the access for free that only required you to click past a splash page announcing Google's sponsorship.

The two months showed a sixfold increase in usage at Logan according to Massport and they wanted to follow up on that by continuing the program with other sponsorship.

Not everybody happy with commuter-rail WiFi

adamg — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:56:41 +0000

Most of the tweets I see about WiFi on the rails (and there are quite a few) are positive. But Innismir shows not everybody's happy.

Building a Boston WiFi network the open-source way

adamg — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:00:18 +0000

Mass. High Tech reports on Openairboston, the non-profit trying to build a citywide public WiFi network.

The effort initially focused on traditional wireless access points (like the ones you can see on lightpoles all over Brookline), but organizers realized that would prove impossibly expensive and so are now using a "mesh" approach, in which each subscriber's computer is essentially equipped to act as an access point through a cheapo router. The result: Free WiFi in parts of the Fenway.

MBTA to expand free WiFi to all commuter rail lines by this spring

adamg — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:24:34 +0000

Worcester Line experiment a success, so the T now plans to equip up to 258 of its 410 coaches with WiFi, with at least two cars on every single train WiFi enabled by this spring, T officials said this morning. WiFi cars will have a special logo slapped on them.

MIT helps itself to your Wifi

Brett — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:10:12 +0000

Here's a good reason to secure your wireless internet. Hari Balakrishnan and Samuel Madden have been helping themselves to your WiFi to collect traffic data, a lucrative commercial field. They've been doing it for more than a year, rather than pay for internet connectivity like everyone else.

Watery WiFi

adamg — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:39:45 +0000

The MBTA is equipping 11 ferry boats with WiFi.

Low-cost broadband in Roxbury, Dorchester

adamg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:11:26 +0000

Well, Grove Hall and Dudley Square, at any rate: $9.95 a month for wireless access, in the first phase of Tom Menino's citywide wireless effort.

The best WiFi in Westie

adamg — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:30:38 +0000

I'm typing this while waiting for a burrito at DeNo's on Centre Street. Lord only knows why a pizza place offers free WiFi, and yes, I'm a nerdgeek for bringing a laptop to a pizza place (hey, I'm just getting back from a computer conference at the Expo Center), but I don't care: It's molto cool.

Worst local WiFI system in the country

adamg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:57:02 +0000

David Weinberger is sitting in the Brookline High School auditorium when he discovers why Brookline's municipal wireless system is awful - not only isn't it free, you have to sign up for a monthly plan, which makes it useless for visitors or people who just need to get on for an hour because, oh, they're sitting in the Brookline High School auditorium.

WiFi on the Franklin Line

adamg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:51:26 +0000

Steve Sherlock posts his experiences direct from the train when he lucks out and gets on one of the cars that actually has it.

... For a free service, occasional access to email will be helpful and beneficial. I won't plan on getting any real work done at this connection strength. ...

We go now to our blogger, reporting live from the Worcester line

adamg — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:57:11 +0000

Jeff Egnaczyk is on the 7:40 train out of Back Bay. Come in, Jeff, can you hear us?

I only have two bars. I'm thinking the WiFi is in another car. It's kind of slow. I think I'm in Newton right now.

WiFi on MBTA Commuter Rail

hrose — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:13:45 +0000

I've had two colleagues report the availability of WiFi on MBTA Commuter Rail trains this week, one on the Greenbush line, one on the Providence line. It seems legitimate enough, has a splash screen & requires one to agree to terms & conditions.

Has anyone else seen this? It's definitely not station-based.

The technology seems to be based on Parvus RiderNet.

Books, ATF, DEA, Homework Censored by No-Cost Muni WiFi

dsheets — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:48:29 +0000

An MIT student reports that the free wifi pilot at Boston's historic Faneuil Hall, 'The Cradle of Liberty', uses phrase lists to block public access to many sites on this government-funded network.

Why a Web site got banned in Boston, well, Quincy Market at any rate

adamg — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:20:01 +0000

Seth Finkelstein just happens to have a copy of the same software used by the city to decide what you get to see on your laptop while connected to the city's WiFi network in Quincy Market. And so he discovers exactly which Boing Boing post got it banned.

You're sitting down, I trust. It's a post about some guy painting a mural about the ocean.

Huh? Seems Boing Boing has a link to a Google search to bring up other posts about the guy that includes the term "safe=off," which means, if the guy has done any murals of NAKED PEOPLE those links might come up. And we can't have links to photos of NAKED PEOPLE showing up on screens all over the marketplace rotunda, now can we?

Earlier:
Banned in Boston.