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?