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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Tuesday, November 11, 2003 |
Source: Computer World
Homeland Security: Tech partners needed
The U.S. government is looking for private companies to partner with on technology-related homeland security projects, including biometric scanners, Wi-Fi radio communications, wireless surveillance cameras and data collection and fusion.
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9:13:14 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Geek Games
Some folks in New Zealand have designed a race for the serious Wi-Fi enthusiast: Participants drive around town sniffing for APs. Each AP contains a clue in the SSID for where to find the next. The first to find all the APs wins....
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8:29:57 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Mayberry Whistles New Tune
Mayberry has moved on from the 60s: The town the creators of the Andy Griffith Show modeled Mayberry after now has a Wi-Fi network covering 18 blocks of downtown. Apparently the city, Mount Airy, North Carolina, has been hit by the disappearance of many of the manufacturing jobs that kept its citizens busy. It's not totally clear why town leaders think the free Wi-Fi network will help out the area. It seems that some believe the network will attract entrepreneurs to live in the area. They also hope the network will attract people to downtown, where they may end up spending money in the shops. The network is cheap enough so it's worth a shot--the town estimates it spent $5,000 setting it up and $300 to $500 per month to maintain it....
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8:29:56 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Print Wirelessly
Iogear makes an 802.11g access point that includes a print server. Users can connect a USB-enabled printer to the gateway and wirelessly send jobs to the printer. The gateway costs $129.95. Iogear hasn’t posted the release yet but it should be here eventually....
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8:29:55 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Intel Has High Hopes for the Future
Intel's Sean Maloney, general manager of Intel’s Communications Group, offered a glimpse at what Intel sees for the future of wireless: While all of Intel's Wi-Fi chips so far have gone into computers, Maloney thinks in the future they will live in a wide array of electronics devices in the home. He admits that Intel was late to wireless and comments that the company has caught up. I certainly wouldn't agree with that given Intel doesn't even have an 802.11g chip out yet. Maloney offers the perfect example of how Intel may be torn about using the hype machine. He notes that Wi-Fi has been overhyped, which is certainly due in part to Intel's Centrino campaign, but says that on the other hand, broadband wireless is going to change everything. Maybe Intel has really high hopes for Wi-Fi but is partly afraid that the market may not lead to a genuine boom....
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8:29:53 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Adding Clients to the Mesh
PacketHop joins the mesh networking craze with technology meant to include not just the access point but also the users, allowing for greater distances from the broadband connection.
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1:10:36 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Voice Over Wi-Fi a Niche App
A There is a lot of talk and some confusion around the value of voice over Wi-Fi: It will take some time for the market to figure out how extensively it should be used. I think voice over Wi-Fi can be really useful to certain workers, but the current products have so many shortcomings that a company must have enough of those workers and be able to benefit enough to suffer through the headaches. Voice over Wi-Fi will become a routine service only if the products improve significantly....
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11:24:24 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Quality Boost
Azimuth has come up with test gear for Wi-Fi vendors: The company claims there is a bit of a void in the market for test equipment that can check performance of networks in a lab. Rich Redelfs, the former CEO and president of Atheros is on the board at Azimuth and says this is the first platform that can test 802.11 networks as a system....
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11:24:23 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Portland Continues Wi-Fi Push
The Portland Business Journal has another long article about the city of Portland’s plans to attract Wi-Fi networks and Wi-Fi companies: The Portland Telecommunications Steering Committee, a group of city government and business leaders pushing Wi-Fi in Portland, hope that a Wi-Fi cloud will cover not just downtown but the outlying suburbs. An Intel exec is part of the group and Nigel Ballard hopes that Intel Capital might encourage some of the wireless startups it funds to relocate to Portland. Portland has been really ambitious in its encouragement of Wi-Fi and I hope it spells success for the city. In typical Portland fashion, the leaders hope to use Wi-Fi to bring more business to the city but only as far as that can benefit citizens--the leaders almost always talk about ensuring some degree of free access on the Wi-Fi networks....
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11:24:22 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Fiberlink Uses Boingo SDK
Fiberlink, the remote access aggretator, said it will use Boingo’s SDK (software developer's kit) to build a client: The client will provide Wi-Fi and in the future 3G sniffing, connection and authentication. The deal also means that Fiberlink customers can access the hotspots that are part of Boingo’s service. In another deal from an aggregator, Infonet, which caters to large multinationals, will use hot spots that are part of GRIC's network. GRIC is an aggregator that appeals to distributed enterprises. I'm seeing an increasing number of announcements about aggregators like Fiberlink, iPass, and GRIC including as many hot spots into their networks as they can and making it easier for their customers to find and use the networks. They are aggressively trying to lock their customers into relying on them for Wi-Fi access before tons of roaming agreements happen between Wi-Fi operators, making the aggregators irrelevant. It will be interesting to watch what happens to these guys as the market evolves....
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11:24:21 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Malaysia Orders up 1,000 Hot Spots
Apparently Malaysia is competing with Singapore and South Korea as an Asian tech leader and part of its efforts involve building lots of hot spots: Malaysian operator TM Net contracted with Aptilo, a Swedish Wi-Fi services and solutions company, to build out 1,000 hot spots, 300 of which are to be built by the end of the year....
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11:24:19 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
More Sites License JiWire Directory
Wi-Fi Networking News partner JiWire said USA Today, PC World, CNET Networks, and AvantGo will use JiWire's hot spot directory on their sites: The directory lists 20,000 hot spots around the world. Via AvantGo, the directory will be available to users of mobile devices like cell phones and PDAs....
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11:24:18 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Estonians Unwire at the Pump
For a small country that doesn't make headlines often, Estonia continues to be a leader in hotspot rollouts. It now has two different gas station chains offering Wi-Fi--one has 43 stations unwired and the other has 29. [via Veljo Haamer, the site is written in Estonian]...
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11:24:17 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Finnish WISPs Roam
From the beautifully named city of Espoo, Finland, comes the news that seven Finnish WISPs are roaming freely across their networks starting in 2004: The networks include the cities of Hamina (operated by Haminan Energia), Lahti (Suomen 4G), Mäntsälä (Mäntsälän Sähkö), Porvoo (Porvoon Energia), Rauma (Rauman Energia), Vaasa and the Leppävaara area in Espoo (Netsafir) as well as Vantaa (Vantaan Energia). Radionet is providing the roaming technology. Interestingly, TeliaSonera HomeRun, the largest trans-Scandinavian WISP, isn't part of this deal. HomeRun has extensive roaming agreements across Europe and elsewhere that require fees for their users when outside of the HomeRun network, but retain the single login, single bill convenience....
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9:25:01 AM
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Source: Ziff Davis
Top Tip: Wireless without router?
I want to ceate a small wireless netowrk that i can share my 56k dial up over(ok ok stop laughing) Do i have to setup a router and attach to internet pc via ethernet or can i just buy a network card to my desktop and laptop and form a network without a router?
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7:18:02 AM
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Source: Extremetech
Top Tip: Wireless without router?
I want to ceate a small wireless netowrk that i can share my 56k dial up over(ok ok stop laughing) Do i have to setup a router and attach to internet pc via ethernet or can i just buy a network card to my desktop and laptop and form a network without a router?
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7:18:01 AM
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