More and more cities around the world are organising universal wifi brodband, some commercially, some by community groups.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Toronto_to_have_socialized_city-wide_wi-fi_access
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3020158.stm
The technology they are using is very simple, standard and cheap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_networking
Why dont we have such a project here in Oxford? As an example the are 16 wifi nodes between the Plain (St Clements) and Boulter street a few hundread yards away. Thus already there is evidence of a need and technological base to do it... anybody any ideas or plans?
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Toronto_to_have_socialized_city-wide_wi-fi_access http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3020158.stm The technology they are using is very simple, standard and cheap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_networking Why dont we have such a project here in Oxford? As an example the are 16 wifi nodes between the Plain (St Clements) and Boulter street a few hundread yards away. Thus already there is evidence of a need and technological base to do it... anybody any ideas or plans?
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