07-08-2003, 06:08 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Calgary Wireless City Showcase Hotspot
"Calgary is a major centre for the development of Advanced Technologies, and Calgarians are the leading users of Wireless Technology in North America. With hundreds of thousands of people traveling in and out of the downtown core every day, and tens of thousands more who call it home, it�s a prime location for showcasing Wi-Fi technology and the Calgary-based companies that make Wi-Fi Hotspots work. This exciting Wireless City project was built to illustrate a large distributed Hotspot using Wireless Backhaul, and how a Wi-Fi Access Operator can offer Roaming from Multiple Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs)."
It's not often I get to crow about the great things my city does, but this is a rare exception: they deployed a very large access point to give downtown Wi-Fi users free access, up to 60 minutes per day. My wife worked on this project, and while I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, it looks like a solid, well-conceived deployment. Have any of my fellow Calgarians who read this site given it a try yet? What were your experiences?
As for the rest of you, does your local city offer any sort of public WiFi access? I wonder if, in a few years, just like bathrooms and water fountains, local governments will offer Wi-Fi access to the public?
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07-08-2003, 06:38 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Re: Calgary Wireless City Showcase Hotspot
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
As for the rest of you, does your local city offer any sort of public WiFi access?
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! :rotfl:
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07-08-2003, 07:11 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
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In Palatine Illinois Harper College http://www.harpercollege.edu has free WiFi from curb to curb 24/7. This is a project that was developed by the Haper College staff. So far the town that I live in, Arlingotn Heights, IL nor the surrounding town have any free hotspots.
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07-08-2003, 07:37 PM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Re: Calgary Wireless City Showcase Hotspot
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I wonder if, in a few years, just like bathrooms and water fountains, local governments will offer Wi-Fi access to the public?
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I'm having a hard time trying to think of public bathrooms and water fountains where I live... :? Even if my city provided these things, I doubt that they will provide public WiFi - it would be hard for places like Starbucks to compete with free... :mrgreen:
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07-08-2003, 08:15 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 36
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Bryant Park
It costs a fortune to live in NYC, and there are lots of annoyances (:2gunfire , but some perks as well - in particular lots of public hotspots.
See, for instance,
http://www.downtownny.com/wireless.asp which lists seven free downtown hotspots, including City Hall Park.
Bryant Park, right behind the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, is one of the more popular public hotspots:
http://www.bryantpark.org/amenities/wireless.php
Also, my institution of Columbia University on the far Upper West Side has pretty much full-campus Wi-Fi that's freely accessible. Given that we have an OC-3 connection to the Internet, they figured that locking down 11Mb/s of bandwith was not worth the hassle :mrgreen:.
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07-08-2003, 08:39 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Dang! i was just in calgary on vacation for over a week. I knew i shoulda brought my wireless notebook to play with! =)
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07-08-2003, 08:40 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Tallahassee has Digital Canopy over the core of downtown. It has been free for at least a year now. It was more a proof of concept, but they just kept it running. Talk is of expanding it at some point and possibly converting it to a pay service.
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07-08-2003, 10:25 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Re: Bryant Park
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Interesting you should mention Bryant Park - it's actually what the Hotspot in Calgary was modelled after. :-)
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07-08-2003, 10:43 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Dec 2003
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The only free Wi-Fi hotspot in Indianapolis that I know of is a coffee shop that's offering the service... no government ones (that I know of)
BTW the coffee shop (The House) is on the corner of 62nd & Keystone. (for anybody living in Indy who's interested)
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07-08-2003, 11:00 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1
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Free Hotspots!
Woohoo!! Calgary Rules!!! You don't even get free healthcare down here (San Diego)!!!
Sure miss it there....
Austen (Original Calgarian!)
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