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Will Congress Ban Municipal WiFi? (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Aug 4, 2005 15:25 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227)
In reply to: Will Congress Ban Municipal WiFi? (O'ReillyNet) by tjw.org
Parent article: Will Congress Ban Municipal WiFi? (O'ReillyNet)

Get Internet access through your cell providor. This is what my boss does. He has Sprint I believe. You connect the cell-phone to your laptop and dial through it much like a modem. The speeds are horrendous but you get access pretty much anywhere you are.

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Will Congress Ban Municipal WiFi? (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Aug 4, 2005 15:27 UTC (Thu) by Alan_Hicks (subscriber, #20469) [Link]

I wouldn't say horrendous. My co-worker does the same thing and he gets 144kbs synchronous,
which is a good bit better than dial-up and certainly enough to do remote administration
through Citrix or OpenSSH.

144kbps synchronous...

Posted Aug 4, 2005 19:02 UTC (Thu) by JohnBell (guest, #12625) [Link]

... which is the combined bandwidth of ISDN 2B+D. Remember when ISDN was considered blazingly quick? Now, we can at least get equivalent bandwidth from cell service (I'm not sure how the latency compares, however).