Wi-Fi: Ha Ha Telephone Co loses entire city, Cerritos goes Wireless

dmcowen674

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12-11-2003 Cerritos Caifornia goes Wireless Citywide

The 51,000 residents of Cerritos, located 26 miles southeast of Los Angeles, have not had DSL broadband access to the Internet because the city is too far from the telephone company's central office.

Residents in Cerritos have asked city officials to find a way to bring broadband to the city for some time.

"We're pleased that our residents will at last have an option for broadband that will be more affordable than is currently available," Hylton said.
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That's what the Phone Co gets for playing Politcs and sitting on their collective a$$.
 

ktwebb

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Can you say "interference". I'll be interested to see the results but I don't buy that working. Not well anyway.
 

MoFunk

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I read an article not too long ago talking about interference. Basically saying that there will soon be so many wireless access points that your computer will get confused as to which ip address to accept, and will just stop talking. Makes sense. I was in DC last week and was at a spot with my pocket pc that I had the option of 5 different OPEN access points and everytime I would try to get on the other would pop up. I was unable to get an ip address so I moved on.
 

Bleep

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I dont think that wireless acess point has anything to do with this type of internet acess. We have a wireless isp here and they have a antenna on a very tall tower and the customers have a antenna on top of the house pointed directly at the tower antenna and it works very well but very expensive.
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ToxicWaste

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Very interesting and ambitious. I wonder how it gets paid for. The article implies the city is paying for 60 subscription accounts at $35/month which is about $2k/month. But that eventually any wireless device will be able to access it within the city. So, how can this company afford to do this for $2k a month? Or maybe I'm not reading the article right, maybe all users will somehow be authenticated and have to pay for the subscription.