02-22-2006, 04:00 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,303
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A Square Mile of Dense Wi-Fi for 'The City'
"The City of London Corporation has announced plans to install a dense Wi-Fi network throughout London's Square Mile. . . . The Cloud, Europe's largest Wi-Fi network operator, to install and manage the network. Expected to go live in the next few months with virtually all the City covered within six months, the Wi-Fi network will be installed in existing street furniture including lamp posts and street signs, allowing City workers and visitors with Wireless-enabled devices to access the internet on streets and in open spaces."
Well, the City of London certainly seems like a logical place to get the Wi-Fi treatment. Of course this kind of thing isn't new to London, but I guess the more the merrier. After all, Wi-Fi interference only happens to other people, right? :worried: Have you guys ever found that too many Wi-Fi devices in an area has caused you issues, or is the problem generally manageable?
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02-22-2006, 02:47 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 454
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I believe "The Cloud" is a commercial service. If it's anything like the Starbucks/T-Mobile in-store WiFi, it'll cost 5 quid an hour (that's around 7-10 of your Earth dollars). The price is just silly, so I'm never going to buy into that model of wireless service.
If WiFi isn't free, I'll wait till I get home or find a coffeeshop that gives it away (since I'm already likely to pay an exorbitant amount for a drink there).
As for interference, I haven't had enough regular experience of public WiFi to notice any. My Asus MyPal is quite capable of interfering with itself (Bluetooth and WiFi collide if I'm using my Stowaway).
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02-22-2006, 05:15 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 105
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Very nice , if you pay monthly ,Openzone for instance gives you 4000 mins for 20 quid, then it starts to get reasonable..of course all those wirless routers around the country could be used to provide a free network and it would be a nightmare for 'the man' to track us all throught that.
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