The Red Brick Times

sharemywifi.com: "If you've got WiFi and are willing to share it - or you can can 'see' someone else's WiFi and would like to use it - you're in the right place."

A pretty cool idea. If it ever caught on we could all have fun watching the lobbyists for broadband providers weasel some kind of law through to stop it. We can already see them in action at the state level.

"Verizon Communications supported a Pennsylvania bill barring communities from building their own network, but struck a deal with Philadelphia to allow the city's plans to go forward."

Sitting here at my desk, in my little suburban neighborhood, I can see two other WiFi access points. Hmm.....
Posted 5:58 AM by whatley (1) comments

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When my brother visits my parents with his laptop and his wi-fi card, he can hit the morthern neighbor in the kitchen and the southern neighbor at the other end of the house. I have gone to digital spread spectrum (DSS) cordless phones for my house. Bluetooth applications are becoming dense enough that they are beginning to interfere. The first version of Bluetooth had a 30 foot range. Current versions reach 60 feet. I was grazing Best Buy tonight. Portable music players, bluetooth phones, wi fi networks are all competing via incompatible protocols. Then factor in HDTV, digital broadcasting, net-bus architecture for vehicle operation control, and stir. There's a whole lot of shaking out going to go on.

# posted by  Andy : January 17, 2006 9:00 PM
 
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