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Google finds that WiFi isn’t as easy as …
By Larry Hendrick | May 17, 2006
THIS JUST IN … WIFI ISN’T AS EASY AS FIRST THOUGHT. A short article at newswireless about some problems Google is having with their WiFi plans. It seems that their estimated number of access points was greatly under the number it will take. No word yet on the revised number or the additional cost involved.
stay tuned …
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It takes more WiFi nodes than you’d think to set up a municipal wireless hot-zone, Google is finding, as it “unwires” its home town of Mountain View in Northern California. It seems to be a pattern.According to Ben Charny’s eWeek blog, “Google’s begun testing the network and, in so doing, has discovered it might need to add more WiFi transmitters than originally thought to deliver the coverage and service quality it promised, according to Ellis Burns, the city’s economic development manager.”
…”The need for pilots of municipal Wi-Fi seem beyond prudent,” is one comment he makes and also: “San Francisco has additional challenges over Mountain View …
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