Citywide WiFi Starting to Spread

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Citywide WiFi Starting to Spread

Postby c0nv3r9 » Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:09 am

This is Kermit T Frog reporting from Sesame Street News.

On the note of sprucing my laptop, I dist-upgraded to edgy. HOLY SHIT BATMAN.. dist-upgrade ACTUALLY WORKS in ubuntu without horrendously trashing any portion of your system.

Anyhow, installed wavemon for giggles to see how it would react to my module, its nifty on-off switch driven transmitter, and whatnot. Flipped on the Tx and the box instantly associated to MetroFi-Free ... citywide wireless has begun in Portland, OR and started in my friggin neighborhood. Looks like they divy the pay-for version via access points, with a little more digging revealing a MetroFi-Premium ESSID. I also spied a 'belmont16' arch node that is being detected as a probe network.. interesting.

Who else is in a city that is raising the barn?
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
-- Nahum 2:5, The Holy Bible, KJV
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