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WiFi hotspots not all that hot
WiFi hotspots not all that hot
05/28/2004 06:14 AMSan Jose Mercury News May 28 2004 10:32AM GMT
Portable Hotspots
Portable Hotspots
02/05/2005 09:27 PM Journal tests NetGear, D-Link portable gateways: This category is
starting to expand as manufacturers realize that once someone tastes
Wi-Fi, they don't want to back to no-Fi. Jesse Drucker, subbing for
Walt Mossberg, writes in The Wall Street Journal about testing two
different gateways on the road and at home. As is typical, the basic
functions are fine and security settings are a bear....
Biodiversity Hotspots
Biodiversity Hotspots
05/04/2004 12:58 AM
The 25
richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on
Earth. Of the 25, here are
the hottest of the
hotspots. An
interactive map. And the latest
news about how
companies like
Office Depot are helping Conservation International
protect threatened
animals who don't get to vote in even the world's
[cough] most enlightened
democracies.
18,000 wifi hotspots in NYC
18,000 wifi hotspots in NYC
07/29/2004 08:45 PMsure, as soon as i leave, the whole island becomes network nirvana
WiFi Spy alerts you to Wi-Fi hotspots
WiFi Spy alerts you to Wi-Fi hotspots
07/16/2004 06:44 AMMarware has released its
WiFi Spy, a small
device that you can hook onto a keychain and carry around for those
times when you need to find an 802.11b/g wireless network, such as in
an airport or a coffee shop. When you press its button, the device
scans for a signal and shows its strength on a four-bar display if it
picks one up. Holding the button and walking around will help you find
the strongest possible signal from the nearby hotspot; it picks up
both open and closed networks. WiFi Spy sells for US$29.95.
Tales of New Hotspots, Services
Tales of New Hotspots, Services
03/08/2004 11:15 PMWayport is just one of a handful of companies announcing new places to
find hotspots over the last week: Visitors to San Francisco's Moscone
Center will be able to get access from Wayport in common areas and
meeting rooms by the spring. Most of the conference center will be
covered by then with the rest coming later. A slightly different
clientele will likely be using a new hotspot in Philadelphia. The
mayor announced that the city will set up a hotspot in Love Park.
Apparently the park used to be filled with skateboarders who were
recently banned from using the park. But a compromise is being worked
on that will allow skateboarders during certain hours. They'll now be
able to tote their laptops to the park as well. In other city hotspot
news, San Jose is planning a big bash Thursday, March 11 at 11:00 at
the Circle of Palms to celebrate San Jose's downtown Wi-Fi service.
The mayor and members of the Silicon Valley Wireless Communications
Alliance will be there. Demonstrations of the service will be
available and the new Downtown Wi-Fi portal will be launched. Finally,
for those iPass customers who have been waiting for the iPass/T-Mobile
agreement to come to fruition, the wait is over. Starting today, iPass
users will see 4,200 T-Mobile hotspots in the iPass directory of
available access sites. IPass customers can also find more information
about those and all iPass broadband access sites now that iPass has
licensed a directory tool from JiWire. IPass customers will be able to
view maps of where the hotspots are and read detailed information
about the venues that offer the hotspots. The tool includes
information about all iPass broadband locations, wired or wireless,
around the globe. JiWire is a Wi-Fi Networking News partner. The
announcement about the T-Mobile sites isn't available online and
JiWire doesn't seem to have posted its news release on its site
yet....
A World Without Wireless Hotspots?
A World Without Wireless Hotspots?
05/26/2004 12:17 PMFollowing the demise of Cometa last week, suddenly some people are
"concerned" that all these wonderful WiFi hotspots
are going to all go away. This seems like a bit of an
overreaction to one company whose repeated missteps were well known
throughout the industry. As the article points out, more and more
people are now making travel arrangements based on their ability to
have wireless access where they stay (and even at the airports they
fly in and out of). If you have a situation where so many people want
something, clearly there's an opportunity. Just because one company
couldn't figure out that their business model would never work,
doesn't mean that hotspots are going away. Companies are increasingly
realizing that wireless access is important for business - whether
they charge for them or even when they give away access for free.
There are plenty of reports about places that say the
return
on free WiFi is significant. Also, many hotels and restaurants
that set up free WiFi for their customers realize that the benefits
for employees pays for itself as well. It seems a bit premature to
assume that because one company couldn't make a bad business model
work that the entire industry is doomed.
Student Unions in UK Become Wi-Fi
Hotspots
Student Unions in UK Become Wi-Fi
Hotspots
07/06/2004 12:07 PM55 students unions will be unwired: SUBzone, which is building out the
network, says 1.2 million students will be covered through their
efforts starting in Leeds. Pricing isn't noted....
Hogging Public Hotspots
Hogging Public Hotspots
04/22/2004 06:42 PMSomewhere between satire and anarchy lies parody: WiFi Hog kicks other
users off public hotspots, even owner: This is clearly practical
performance art, but it's an interesting Gedanken (und Praktisches)
experiment as well. If a third party can gain access over a public
hotspots, how does that transform the relationship of the owner and
other users to that service? [link via comment on The Feature where
David Pescovitz further explains the project.]...
Open Source Hotspots
Open Source Hotspots
05/25/2004 01:29 PMWi-Fi hotspots simply too expensive
Wi-Fi hotspots simply too expensive
06/02/2004 07:18 AMNo return on investment, German study shows
New Twist on Municipal Hotspots
New Twist on Municipal Hotspots
06/28/2004 02:42 PMManchester, New Hampshire, plans to announce in mid-July that a
hotspot will be available downtown for anyone to use free for one
hour: It appears that the city decided it wanted a network and put out
a request for proposal. Signull Technologies offered to fund and build
the network and then offer one free hour per day per user. An hour a
day might be useful for folks who may want to check email during their
lunch break or for visitors to town. The agreement sounds like a good
way for Signull to pull in potential customers and for the city to
offer a useful service for visitors and residents....
WeRoam Adds New Hotspots
WeRoam Adds New Hotspots
06/24/2004 12:51 PM WeRoam, which offers authentication, billing, and settlement services
to operators, added Ireland's Bitbuzz to its network: Bitbuzz now has
about 30 hotspots but plans to grow. The agreement means that
customers of WeRoam's operator customers, such as Orange of
Switzerland, can now roam onto Bitbuzz hotspots. WeRoam mainly touts
its ability to do SIM-based authentication but it will support other
types of authentication based on the capabilities of the hotspot
operator. We covered WeRoam's business model and how it compares to
other roaming solutions in May....
New Take on Free Hotspots:
NewburyOpen.net
New Take on Free Hotspots:
NewburyOpen.net
11/17/2003 03:01 PMMichael Oh may have one of the most unique versions of a free Wi-Fi
network anywhere. Oh wanted to extend Wi-Fi around his office, located
on a tony stretch of Newbury Street in Boston, and to the shops on the
street. He quickly concluded that he would have to charge users too
much if he wanted to build a robust and reliable network that
customers would pay to use. Instead, he decided to build a free
network in hopes that it might serve as good PR for his Mac
consulting, sales, and support business, Tech Superpowers. But
building a free network that included more than one access point (AP)
would be expensive to maintain because it would require paying for
high speed data lines for backhaul. So Oh developed his own network
architecture. "From an economic standpoint, it's an interesting
architecture because it's simple," Oh said. "We can put up nine
locations with a single T1." At each remote location he uses Apple APs
plus wireless bridges from Linksys that were originally designed to
wirelessly enable printers. At his central location is an AP with two
outdoor antennas, each pointing in a different direction. The remote
repeaters look like any type of client to the central AP. "So the AP
at our location sees each repeater as nine client cards out there," he
said....
Mobiles track down wi-fi hotspots
Mobiles track down wi-fi hotspots
09/17/2004 06:13 AMFans of wireless internet access can now find their nearest wi-fi
hotspot using their mobile phone.
Intel promotes Net hotspots
Intel promotes Net hotspots
01/06/2005 02:33 AMAME Info Jan 6 2005 6:02AM GMT
Ithaca ISP Adds Hotspots
Ithaca ISP Adds Hotspots
01/22/2004 02:13 AMIthaca, NY, LightLink adds hotspots to its wireless mix: LightLink
provides a multi-mile wireless link to my friend, colleague, and
co-author Adam Engst, with whom I wrote The Wireless Networking
Starter Kit. LightLink is providing free Wi-Fi equipment to qualifying
locations, and will offer both free and paid access. Guests who are
not LightLink subscribers (either to home, business, or the hotspot
service itself) will have email and Web (port 80 only) access.
Subscribers receive full access to all ports, so they can run VPNs and
other software. It's a nice model that's being pursued by Telerama in
Pittsburgh in which the hotspot market is of nominal value to the ISP
as a pure revenue stream, but rather reinforces their ability to sign
up more lucrative and steady fixed wired (DSL, etc.) or wireless
customers....
Keep clear of spoofing at hotspots
Keep clear of spoofing at hotspots
03/23/2005 08:02 AMTechWorld Mar 23 2005 10:09AM GMT
Boingo Adds 200 Hotspots
Boingo Adds 200 Hotspots
12/22/2003 04:13 PMBoingo has added 200 hotels with Wi-Fi networks built by Arescom to
its network: Also, Boingo partnered with Motive to offer service
provisioning software to carriers. The software makes it easier for
end users to configure their computers for wired or wireless broadband
connections....
HarperCollins Creates Bookstore Hotspots
HarperCollins Creates Bookstore Hotspots
06/05/2005 10:56 PM Publisher will build hotspots at bookstores in innovative approach:
Sure, Barnes & Noble and Borders Books have had hotspots for some
time now, with Borders claiming the older network. (Barnes & Noble
signed its Cometa deal weeks before it shut down; now SBC operates
B&N hotspots.) But HarperCollins's plan will bring Wi-Fi with a
HarperCollins splash page to what sounds at least like a wider variety
of booksellers and at no cost. It's an interesting move because many
bookstores aren't set up to handle people with laptops, and there's
always been some concern that access to perfect information in the
form of book price comparisons at Amazon.com (or even my own service,
isbn.nu) would erode on-the-spot impulse buying. The company said in a
press release that they will launch a four-month pilot program, to be
announced at this weekend Book Expo America. The publisher is
providing free Wi-Fi access at the show....
Securing wireless hotspots with RADIUS
Securing wireless hotspots with RADIUS
04/07/2005 09:33 PMTechWorld Apr 8 2005 1:31AM GMT
DoCoMo Wi-Fi Phone Won't Work at
Hotspots
DoCoMo Wi-Fi Phone Won't Work at
Hotspots
07/13/2004 05:03 PMTheFeature.com discusses how DoCoMo's 3G/WLAN phone protects cell
voice business model: Carlo Longino writes that DoCoMo's N900iL
handset works on 3G cell networks and office Wi-Fi networks, but that
the company has somehow disabled it from working in hotspots. Is it
disabled, or can it just not handle the authentication? Gateway pages
aren't good for handheld devices, especially cell phones, but this is
a great opportunity for 802.1X to enter the scene and handle the
authentication. Longino expects that DoCoMo, T-Mobile, and other
carriers won't make it easy to use voice over just any old Wi-Fi
network because it could erode voice revenue....
WiFi hotspots should have semantics and
geotags
WiFi hotspots should have semantics and
geotags
03/22/2005 05:00 PMCory Doctorow:
Brad Templeton's got a neat idea -- add geotagging and semantics to
WiFi hotspots:
It would contain a mixed XML/HTML packet with a variety of useful
fields and general text. These could range from simple descriptions
("This access point belongs to Joe Smith, I'm a programmer") to
information ("On this site, Paul Revere stopped on his ride to consult
with local minutemen") to street directions ("Turn right to get to
highway 101, left for downtown") to, of course, advertising ("We sell
fresh fruit and have a special on plums today.")
In other words, a replacement for signs and billboards and markers.
And perhaps much more. Access points would also talk about themselves,
declaring, for example, if the owner is offering open internet access
for free or for fee, or has a local database of information, and what
class of information is in the main text. The local lattitude and
longitude for those without a GPS could be useful, along with local
maps data in a compact form.
Link
(
Thanks, Brad!)
Update: Felix sez, "plazes is collaborative geo-tagging of
networks, not just WiFi but any LAN. Unique identifier is the
router´s MAC ID. In addition to structured data like address and type
of network, people can upload pics and comments for that
plaze/network. Every network gets a linkable URL and right now, we are
working on a RDF representation of the geodata."
In Brief: MCI adds thousands of wireless
hotspots
In Brief: MCI adds thousands of wireless
hotspots
03/22/2005 04:43 PMMCI on Tuesday launched 1,300 new Wi-Fi hotspots in Europe and the
Asia/Pacific region, and will launch 3,400 hotspots in the U.S. in
May. In addition to typical Wi-Fi locations such as airports and
hotels, the MCI expansion will bring hotspots to new places that MCI
customers requested, including cafes, bookstores, and business service
centers. The Wi-Fi service is part of an MCI service for medium-size
and large businesses called Remote Access Services, which includes
dial-up, virtual private network connections. The MCI service includes
a software package that connects users to the Internet using the
connection of their choice. While other carriers offer Wi-Fi access,
MCI's service ties Wi-Fi, dial-up, and broadband wired access together
in one package. MCI customers don't need a separate subscription to
multiple wireless providers for Wi-Fi access. The MCI service includes
an unlimited Wi-Fi plan for $40 a month as an add-on to dial-up
service. A time-based plan charges $8 an hour for the first hour, with
a maximum of $15 a day.
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iPass Hits 11,179 Hotspots Worldwide
iPass Hits 11,179 Hotspots Worldwide
07/06/2004 12:07 PMiPass say they crossed the 10,000 hotspots mark in their aggregated
network and then some: iPass now offers 11,179 Wi-Fi hotspots
worldwide through aggregated partner networks. The release also says
that they have 12,000 more under contract for the future, which is a
quite extraordinary number. The 2,900 hotels included in this total
all have Wi-Fi in at least public spaces, a company spokesperson
confirmed. Many of them may have wired in-room broadband, however. An
increasing number of hotels are starting with Wi-Fi from the get-go;
others are converting from wired broadband to Wi-Fi for greater
flexibility as costs drop, range increases, and wireless backhaul
becomes simpler. The largest hotspot operators in the U.S. have boiled
down to three companies for the near future: T-Mobile (about 4,500),
Wayport (several hundred hotels with a mix of Wi-Fi and wired
broadband, plus thousands of McDonald's coming online this year), and
SBC FreedomLink (several thousand The UPS Store outlets, managed by
Wayport)....
Property hotspots 'outside South'
Property hotspots 'outside South'
07/09/2004 08:30 PMCrewe sees the UK's sharpest house price rise as southern England
fails to register on the Halifax's hotspot chart.
Cell Phones Find Hotspots
Cell Phones Find Hotspots
09/17/2004 12:24 PMA new service in the UK lets Wi-Fi users find nearby hotspots with
their cell phones: By sending a text message to a certain mailbox,
users will receive a list of the nearest Wi-Fi hotspots. The service
offers up hotspots that are near the cell site that the user's phone
is communicating with. This is a fantastic offering for finding
hotspots in an area users may not be familiar with. There are plenty
of hotspot locators online, but they require users to investigate
hotspots in the area in advance. For all the procrastinators out there
or for folks who may find themselves unexpectedly in need of a
hotspot, the cell phone locator service is great. Now this company
just needs to start offering the service in the United States…...
Boingo To Add Wi-fi Hotspots In Mexico
With Telmex
Boingo To Add Wi-fi Hotspots In Mexico
With Telmex
09/13/2004 05:28 AMWi-Fi Technology Forum Sep 13 2004 9:45AM GMT
iPass aggregates Swisscom hotspots
iPass aggregates Swisscom hotspots
12/03/2003 09:50 AMBusily testing access points
iPass aggregates T-Mobile US hotspots
iPass aggregates T-Mobile US hotspots
12/16/2003 08:56 AMWLAN site tally to top 6900
T-Mobile Hotspots Free in Germany
T-Mobile Hotspots Free in Germany
12/22/2003 04:13 PMThrough the end of February, T-Mobile hotspots in Germany are free to
all users: AOL subscribers can also reportedly find free hotspots in
Germany at Stadtnetz, but I can't vouch for the content of the site as
it's all in German. [via Klaus.]...
Encinitas and Rancho Santa Fe Wi-Fi
Hotspots
Encinitas and Rancho Santa Fe Wi-Fi
Hotspots
03/06/2004 02:02 AMI am thirteen years old and recently became interested in
Warchalking/Wardriving after seeing the article in Wired magazine.
I've looked through many wi-fi locator websites and found little or no
wireless networks near my house, which I can understand. So, I decided
to create my own map.
BT Openzone on track to launch more
Wi-Fi hotspots
BT Openzone on track to launch more
Wi-Fi hotspots
01/22/2004 10:17 AMComputer Buyer Jan 22 2004 1:36PM GMT
Wi-Fi Redirect Gateway Patent for
Hotspots
Wi-Fi Redirect Gateway Patent for
Hotspots
01/27/2004 12:10 AMFind Wi-Fi Hotspots without a Net
Connection (01-Mar-2004; 2.1K)
Find Wi-Fi Hotspots without a Net
Connection (01-Mar-2004; 2.1K)
03/06/2004 01:50 AMCustomers flock to cheap hotspots
Customers flock to cheap hotspots
05/07/2004 05:00 AMZDNet Australia May 7 2004 8:53AM GMT
The Cloud ties Wi-Fi hotspots into GSM
network
The Cloud ties Wi-Fi hotspots into GSM
network
05/10/2004 07:11 AMComputer Weekly May 10 2004 11:33AM GMT
Hotspots make the cell connection
Hotspots make the cell connection
05/05/2004 04:55 PMComputer Times Asia May 5 2004 9:19PM GMT
Washington Post Rounds Up How to Find
Hotspots
Washington Post Rounds Up How to Find
Hotspots
04/24/2004 12:57 PMThe Washington Post presents a summary of advice on finding hotspots,
signing up for service: Daniel Greenberg points out the dilemma of
Wi-Fi hotspots: if you don't know where they are, how do you find
them? He mentions our partner Jiwire along with its free downloadable
hotspot finding application (Mac, Windows, Linux), and Jim Sullivan's
excellent Wi-Fi Free Spot directory. Greenberg also runs through
options for paying (or not paying) for service at hotels, coffeeshops,
and other venues....
Grok Description matches for Hotspots
GrokA matches for Hotspots
NEed Help Setting up Wirless Card.
NEed Help Setting up Wirless Card.
04/09/2004 04:10 PMI just bought a 802.11 b wirless card for my laptop. The problem is i
don't yet have a wireless router in my home and do not know the ESSID
of any wireless port/point. I do not know should i set it to Ad-Hoc or
infrastructure. I need help on this matter. What do i configure so
that i can pick up any public/unrestricted wirless points? Please
e-mail me your suggestions at dark_lord@whoever.com or post your reply
here. Thank you for your time.
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