StarDestroyer.Net BBS

when you see free wireless internet here in Podunk, Indiana.

EVPL wireless access



I'm posting from the coffee shop located in Oaklyn branch with my Dell laptop and D-Link Wi-Fi card. The AP is only 802.11b and they have websense censoring, so it's not as good as my home SuperG connection. But the coffee is better.

lots of places have it, but a vast majority dont. mostly its coffee shops and cafes. i know that the Atlanta Bread Company down here has free wifi. i'm not sure about the public libraries, though they should have it if they dont. same with schools and other public areas.

Wi-Fi and Bluetooth terminals are sprouting everywhere now. A lot of cybercafés have them to save buying new PCs for extra people.

But the technology is still crap from my experience and is only useful where wires truly aren't available. Another couple of years and hopefully it'll be better (Ultra Wide Band and so on).

My city has various access points set up around - actually, I think they encompass a very large area. You can pay to have the service, but I haven't heard too much from other people about it's quality...

Wifi hotspots are becoming common in the west. It is a pity that they dont exist here.

Maybe I shouldn't have been so surprised.

Despite our small size (120,000 or so) we have two cable companies that offer cable modem broadband and SBC offers DSL.