[nycbug-talk] free wireless

[George Georgalis]

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 06:11:53PM -0400, Dru wrote:
>
>Woohoo, something to look forward to next time I'm in the big Apple:
>
>http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060516/tc_afp/afplifestyleusinternet;_ylt=AiOqd8ijlUI5kFCkVgQmZ8AjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
>
>If we could just get some of that here in Ottawa...

well my experience in Bryant park, which has been wifi by google
for a while is high latency. you can surf web pages okay but ssh
is 1 to 20 seconds per keystroke, can't work there...

I emailed the support staff about giving priority to port 22
and got a reply it sounded like a good idea... but I never
got confirmation that the powers agreed; prob some technical
(abuse) issue with that type of QOS.

anyway there are lots of free spots. pick your favorite coffee shop
and you have a 35% chance of free gateway. :-}

// George


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