Portland launches first citywide Wi-Fi

[Adeline]

I saw this http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/reg ... st=orlocal on the news today and immeadiately wondered how it could enhance my boating/fishing experience. I can't afford the fees charged by Verizon etal for mobile internet access. Does anyone know if this will be accessible from a boat on the Willy or Columbia ?

 

[BrentB]

Here is the Unwire Portland web site and includes coverage map to date.
http://www.portlandonline.com

 

[oldgrowth]

Brent – I checked the link you referred to and did not see a map of the included coverage area. Now I could have missed it, as there are over 200 direct links on the page. Could you give a link to the map.

Thanks
________
Dave

 

[BrentB]

Dave

Try
http://www.portlandonline.com/index.cfm?c=43147
and
http://www.portlandonline.com/shared/cf ... ?id=129683


Happy Holidays

 

[starcrafttom]

looking at the map I would not call that city wide covarage. Great if you are down town but if you leave the core you are done.

 

[Byrdman]

Wow... that sounds good... Go "to town" check yer stuff...and get back out to the waters. The city of Clarksville is also looking into this. I sure would like it.

 

[Seaboldski]

Ah, Portland, not exactly the first city....

The City That Cut the Cord
Sleepy Spokane, Wash., has a secret: it's the wireless hot spot of the future
October 11, 2004

....In 1999, Crilly, working with another HP engineer named Bob Conley, figured out a way to run a regular wi-fi signal through a phased-array antenna, a powerful piece of hardware that's used mostly by the military. Suddenly, they had a wi-fi hot spot a couple of miles wide. The world had never seen that before. If a regular wi-fi transmitter was a candle, this thing was a baseball-stadium spotlight. They called it, for reasons best known to themselves, Little Joe.....

http://www.time.com/time/2004/wireless/story.html