epersonae + wifi   58

Much of Rural America Still Struggles With Broadband Access - NYTimes.com
sweet that the local library leaves their wifi on all night so people can get online in the parking lot.
politics  wifi  misctech  urbanstudies 
february 2011 by epersonae
cwiNV.jpg (1323×1486)
broadband around the world. (don't know original source, found via @lauras on twitter.)
finance  wifi  misctech 
january 2010 by epersonae
SolarNetOne: Solar-powered networking for anyone
"SolarNetOne is a turnkey Internet hotspot—power, computers, and satellite uplink—you can install virtually anywhere, for less than the cost of a subcompact car." diagram makes my head hurt, but fascinating.
wifi  opensource 
july 2009 by epersonae
» Coffee Company WIFI advertising/design goodness - advertising and design blog
cute. network names advertising specials, asking you to buy a coffee (cheapskate!), or maybe one for "that cute girl".
wifi  funny  marketing 
december 2008 by epersonae
Wi-Fi Networking News: T-Mobile Loses Starbucks; AT&T Becomes Wi-Fi Hotspot Giant
"all Starbucks Card holders, [...] their value-storing swipe card system, will get two hours of free Wi-Fi a day" oh, hey, that's pretty useful, since SBX is pretty much all I've got in the work 'hood.
wifi  personal 
february 2008 by epersonae
Fictional radio-spaces · Touch
“How can we use the increasingly radio-saturated landscape for creative or functional purposes?” -- extra-trippy.
arts  wifi  weird  misctech 
december 2007 by epersonae
Meshing with Meraki - LachStock
nice. we've had much the same experience. and I think they're darn cute.
wifi 
october 2007 by epersonae
Why have municipal Wi-Fi networks been such a flop?
"The result [...] has been telecom's Bay of Pigs—a project the government wanted to happen but left to underqualified private parties to deliver." heh. perfect description. They note St. Cloud FL as a success story, too.
wifi  local  olympia 
september 2007 by epersonae
Meraki's Guerilla Wi-Fi to Put a Billion More People Online: Scientific American
"NetEquality's largest setup includes 350 apartments that use 75 nodes and just four DSL Internet connections." (on page 2) there you are, then.
wifi 
august 2007 by epersonae
ATTwirelessfineprint
ugh. cell service is the pits. still.
wifi  society  politics  misctech 
july 2007 by epersonae
Free Press : Community WiFi
I love these graphics. (C used this in his final project for Urban Studies.)
wifi  wifi-pics 
june 2007 by epersonae
docked_walkabout.jpg
picture of a homebrew solar-powered wifi AP.
wifi  wifi-pics 
june 2007 by epersonae
Palm, Inc. - Products - Foleo
little computer, mostly for browsing. very sexy.
wifi  misctech 
june 2007 by epersonae
Wellington Grey -- Miscellanea -- The Truth About Wireless Devices
"Shut up, four eyes. We're informing the people and letting them decide." heh.
funny  wifi  science  society 
may 2007 by epersonae
NetEquality.org — Home Page
this is kinda what we're thinking for the neighborhood!
ena  wifi  to-read 
february 2007 by epersonae
WNMap
"WNMap is a wireless network map display based on Google and Yahoo! Maps."
wifi  gis  google  webdev 
january 2007 by epersonae
Pasadena selects EarthLink
wifi in my old (sortof) hometown. 23 square miles...what does that look like on a map?
wifi  californication 
august 2006 by epersonae
Nonprofit may run Boston Wi-Fi network - Yahoo! News
"creating a citywide, low-cost wireless Internet network [by] putting a nonprofit organization, rather than a private service provider, in charge of building and running the system"
wifi  nonprofit 
august 2006 by epersonae
Yellow Chairs and Neighborly Technology
set a chair out for the neighbors to let know it's okay for them to use yr network.
wifi  urbanstudies 
june 2006 by epersonae
Somalia: Black Hawk Up
cheap internet/phone in lawless,war-torn Somalia. how weird is that?!
weird  politics  wifi  misctech 
june 2006 by epersonae
Bremerton to get wifi? Bremerton?? | Better South Sound
I, for one, did not realize that Bremerton had a downtown.
wifi  local 
may 2006 by epersonae
Home Networking Help
Network Magic. should give it a whirl
it@home  wifi  to-install  misctech 
april 2006 by epersonae
Oly Muni Wi-fi update
yes, definitely someone to connect with!
wifi  local  to-do 
february 2006 by epersonae
The National Summit for Community Wireless Networks
impressively inexpensive, if only I can find a way to ship C there....
wifi  checkback 
january 2006 by epersonae
CATIA - Welcome
Catalysing Access to ICT in Africa (CATIA) -- found while looking for something else
nonprofit  wifi  society  misctech 
january 2006 by epersonae
Wireless Net links spread
the Olympian on the library going wifi. kinda meagre, honestly, but better than nothing.
wifi  local 
december 2005 by epersonae
Anaheim considers citywide Wi-Fi
the question is: will I be able to blog from Disneyland?
wifi 
october 2005 by epersonae
Olympia Wireless Facilities Ordinance
mtg tonight, comments due by next Monday.
wifi  ena 
october 2005 by epersonae
The Whiteness of Wi-Fi -- In These Times
and then there's access to an actual computer....
freegeek  wifi  society 
august 2005 by epersonae
WiFi as Equalizer
why a politician would be talking about internet access
wifi  politics 
july 2005 by epersonae
securing a wifi network
I think ours is pretty good by default, but I wouldn't mind double-checking
wifi  personal  to-do 
july 2005 by epersonae
Urban Atmospheres
wacky things with wifi in the city
wifi 
february 2005 by epersonae

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