Toronto Hydro Wifi

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 03:43:53PM +0000, Erebus wrote:
> And what kind of hardware are they using on those lightpoles? (as usual 
> I'm wondering brand and type)

The FAQ says Siemens provided most of the hardware involved.

It also says you could use it as your home internet connection if you
are in the area, although it also says the connection times out after 15
minutes of inactivity, so that kind of rules out using it as a useful
connection if every time you want to do something, you have to launch a
browser to login before using other programs.  I think they will need to
fix that stupidity somehow before it actually becomes useful for
anything but occational use on the go.

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