An entire town covered by WI-FI

[kabkbak]

just wandering if there are any other places like this

in north eastern pa (mahonio city) rt209 north to 54 west
an internet provider set up a wi-fi service for the entire town
on the roof of a hi-rise (13 stories) little town.
on a subscriber base ,handy when i working near there
but i never heard of any out side of large city's

if you know of any other large area networks please reply



oh ya they had the first cable tv service in the US too (very small town)

[kabkbak]

if you know of any sites that cover this let me know

thanks :lol:

[ctmagnus]

Austin Wireless (http://www.austinwireless.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi), Bay Area Wireless Users Group (http://www.bawug.org/), BC Wireless (http://bcwireless.net/), Elektrosmog (http://www.elektrosmog.nu/), Houston Wireless (http://www.houstonwireless.org/), NovaWireless (http://www.cawnet.org/), NYCwireless (http://nycwireless.net/), Personal Telco Project (http://www.personaltelco.net/static/index.html), SeattleWireless (http://seattlewireless.net/)

To name a few. Of course, these don't have the coverage percentage-wise that the one you listed has.

[kabkbak]

thanks
and again the town is 2 miles long and 1/2 mile wide (coal town)
think 400 people 500 teeth 8O
ok not really

[Janak Parekh]

(very small town)
That's a large reason why. Any town that's slightly larger, or hillier, or if it has bigger buildings, it'll be very difficult to blanket cover without a lot of base stations.

--janak

[Brad Adrian]

Of course, if you happen to live near a college, many campuses are well covered. I've been taking a lot of college tours these days with my son (who's a high school senior), and have been pleasantly surprised with the number of wireless campuses.

[qmrq]

Check out http://www.houstonwireless.org/