<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt">Coverage: Walnut Street from Aiekn to S. Negley; Resources: 17 nodes<br><br>Multiply by hundreds of miles of streets in the Pittsburgh area, you do the math.<br><br>Econ 101: Businesses don't long remain well-funded if they throw away resources on projects which don't return profits. There is a time to ignore welfare queens who desperately beg for free goodies.<br><div> </div>Terry McIntyre <terrymcintyre@yahoo.com><br>They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters. -- Daniel Webster<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Drew from Zhrodague
<drew@zhrodague.net><br>To: General user list <wplug@wplug.org><br>Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2007 1:03:42 PM<br>Subject: Re: [wplug] muni wif non-starter<br><br><div>> Interesting article about the troubles with minucipal wifi:<br><br>> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18848">http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/18848</a><br><br>> Evidently, there isn't enough demand to pay for the infrastructure <br>> costs. Who knew?<br><br>> I suspect that large-scale wifi networks won't work until WiMAX or 3G or <br>> 4G or some other large-scale technology is more fully developed. Who can <br>> afford to build and maintain a network of access points on every <br>> lamppost spanning hundreds of square miles?<br><br> Who can afford to build and maintain a network of hundreds or even <br>thousands of servers? A small team with the right tools.<br><br>
I can't understand why these are being stalled. Look at what Jon <br>is doing in shadyside: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.shadysidewifi.com">http://www.shadysidewifi.com</a> -- all by himself. <br>He's doing SqHill, and I think one other area. How come he can do this, <br>but a well funded company *IN THAT BUSINESS* can't do the same thing?<br><br><br>-- <br><br>Drew from Zhrodague <a target="_blank" href="http://www.WiFiMaps.com">http://www.WiFiMaps.com</a><br>drew@zhrodague.net <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pghwireless.net">http://www.pghwireless.net</a><br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zhrodague.net/%7Edrew">http://www.zhrodague.net/~drew</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>wplug
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