That's pretty cool, better than the system Philadelphia is going with because you don't have to pay for it (although it's slower).
Yeah, but 'free' isn't really free. Tax payers do pay for this. But you know what is really great? Intel and a couple of other companies DONATED most of the equipment! Very nice gesture
This is cool stuff......some friends are telling me that ANYONE with wireless in their house will let them get access from the street, in their car! So this is like that... I hear the cable and phone companies are raising a ruckus, one less Bill they won't get to send us! But N.O. is currently 'exempt' from normal trade restrictions....... I say anything I do not have to pull cabling to, is a good thing......!
That is really cool. I wonder how long until it is working uptown, or in Covington. lol I went down to reginellis tonight for dinner. It was my first time back in that area except for last week when I was driving around for a few minutes. It was strange seeing hummers with soldiers driving by and seeing starbucks and other places still closed.
Article in yesterdays paper said once it was up and running it would be barely faster than dial-up. Uhhhhh, gee thanks. I'll pass. http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf?/base/library-90/1133336194287360.xml?nola <<<Numerous tests of the system in the Central Business District on Tuesday generated download speeds around eight times faster than phone dial-up service. By comparison, DSL service runs about 15 to 30 times faster than dial-up, and cable Internet is typically 30 times to 100 times faster. That means a Web page that takes a couple of seconds to load through the slowest cable connection might take 10 seconds or more through the city's wireless network. Sending and receiving large digital files, such as videos and high-resolution photographs, will take substantially longer. The network's speed will slow even more, to about twice as fast as dial-up, once the state of emergency is lifted and a state law restricting government-owned Internet services goes into effect again.>>> Dave
Odd, it doesn't seem like the person who wrote that article is 'up to speed' with some of those estimates. The average dial-up connection has an effective speed under 56k, its actually closer to 40k. The wireless in N.O. will be running at 512k. So we can safely assume it to run at ten times the speed of dial-up. Which is on par with several umbrella wireless systems. In fact, I just ran a test of how fast the wireless connection I am using to trade off of(802.11) is clocking around 539.4 kilobits per second, ever so slightly above the 512k limit of N.O. Which is not a bad clip! In fact, 512k is approx 1/3 the speed of a T-1, which, for most appilcations, is more than sufficient. 128k(once 'emergency' status is lifted) isn't anything to write home about though. Would be nice if we can keep it at 512k. Oh yeah, I think I missed a call from you Dave, have you had the chance to nab that bike?
That's the deal, SBC and Roadrunner are crying 'foul' if it undercuts their market....man, on my jobsite dial ups speed is all over the map thru my service.......sometimes its so slow I hang up and call back!!! LOL! Interesting to watch how all this will play out! Give us a ring Dave328 if you make it to Houston this weekend! You too, John! You know theres a cool Vintage Racing poster dealer in Arlington, you should check him out, while you are up there!
I'm actually going to be in tonight. 'Cept the %$#^@ flight is delayed over an hour! But I'll have zero free time. All day Sat and Sun I'll be in a cycle class and I have a meeting early Mon at home, so, I move Becky home Sun night. I still have to come back when my bike is in, so I promise we'll hook up and do lunch or dinner. We can drag Dale down from the "Country" too!! LOL!! Dave
You be careful on that scooter, bro...we are busy enough already in the ER! Good to hear you are close to normal at home! Bravo! All is forgiven....we knew you were burning the candle at both ends!!!!
Snip from WaPo report: Hours after New Orleans officials announced Tuesday that they would deploy a city-owned, wireless Internet network in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, regional phone giant BellSouth Corp. withdrew an offer to donate one of its damaged buildings that would have housed new police headquarters, city officials said yesterday. According to the officials, the head of BellSouth's Louisiana operations, Bill Oliver, angrily rescinded the offer of the building in a conversation with New Orleans homeland security director Terry Ebbert, who oversees the roughly 1,650-member police force.
Does that still stand more than a week later? And were those damaged buildings worth anything at all anyway?
