JoeyDee
Premium
join:2004-07-23
Las Vegas, NV
 ·Cox HSI
| 300kbps?
That's pretty chickenshit. Why would the city of San Fran agree to that?
Slow speeds, get adware inundated and have google record your every keystroke. I wanna use that service.  |
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antwanp
Beyond FM, Beyond AM, XM Satellite Radio
Premium
join:2002-05-14
Cedar Hill, TX
clubs: 
 ·T-Mobile US
·RoadRunner Cable
| Bitch, bitch moan... For a FREE citywide wireless network 300kbps is pretty good. As for spyware, either correct your machine like 80% of DSLR has already done with anti-spyware software, or switch to OS X and don't worry about spyware.
I implore you to point out the disadvantages for using the FREE google/earthlink wifi to check my e-mail while I'm in the marina district or hanging out in Golden Gate Park? You're just trying to find a reason to bitch about Google, and it's a stretch at that!
-Antwan L.
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zduice
join:2001-03-03
San Dimas, CA | reply to JoeyDee
300kbps is more than enough for streaming music at 128 kbps while browsing webpages and emailing. It's free, if you wany more.. pay for more. |
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antwanp
Beyond FM, Beyond AM, XM Satellite Radio
Premium
join:2002-05-14
Cedar Hill, TX
clubs: | Exactly! |
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Ashes562
join:2005-03-17
Cerritos, CA | Ill take anything that is free but 300kbps... hell sounds good to me  |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
 ·Qwest.net
| Great! What a thing for the tourist business. Good place for local businesses to run ad's on. This will help with another project in San Fransisco, PDA's for bums. 
Hey Joe just text messaged me Market Street Pastries is throwing out donuts, the dumpster is full of them.....
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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·Comcast
|  Rollout won't begin until 2007
Rollout won't begin until 2007 since the contracts won't be done until the end of the year.Chris Vein, the director of San Francisco's technology department, said he is hopeful that a contract can be hammered out by the end of the year. The agreement must be reviewed for final approval by the city's board of supervisors.
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ftthz
If love can kill hate can also save
join:2005-10-17 | free is nice |
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Ahrenl
join:2004-10-26
North Andover, MA | reply to JoeyDee
Re: 300kbps?
300kbps is like lightning.. You obviously never lived with 1200baud (and lower) dial-up.. |
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screwthisbox
@il.us
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Re: Rollout won't begin until 2007
It doesn't matter. 300Kbps is the dial up of 2006, with new technology I and everyone else should expect more. We can deliver speeds of Gbps but yet we are only being supplied nothing but mere crumbs by ISPs at speed of something like 10Mbps. I thought capitalism was suppose to invoke competition but apparently it does nothing more for competition than what communism does. |
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pcnetworx1
join:2005-09-21
Bethel Park, PA | reply to JoeyDee
Re: 300kbps?
JoeyDee, your just another troll it seems... |
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ctaul
join:2004-03-09
Dallas, TX | reply to screwthisbox
Re: Rollout won't begin until 2007
then build your own isp...and u can pay for all the bandwidth and fiber you want lol |
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jtorre69
join:2005-12-26
Hollywood, FL | reply to Transmaster
Re: 300kbps?
hahahahaha!!!!!!!!! |
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FightingBlue
@direcpc.com
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Re: Rollout won't begin until 2007
It's a myth that bandwidth costs money. It costs nothing to produce, nothing to distribute. The only reason it's priced so unreasonably high is because of a handful of companies that sit on the big pipes and demand huge tolls to play with their hardware. There's tons of unused capacity, but it pays to create an artificial valuation, the way they do with the price of gas. Do you really think it costs $1000 a month to run a little voltage down a T1 line? |
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zduice
join:2001-03-03
San Dimas, CA
| reply to screwthisbox
This service is obviously not being marketed to someone like you, the power user, but towards the casual user. If a free service offered 3 mbit download speeds it would only be a matter of time before the network's bandwidth is overly utilized by just few leeching users 24/7 making it crawl well below 300 kbps. |
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danza
Premium
join:2002-08-23 | reply to ctaul
300kb is slow? What do you want to do with a free wireless? BT? download porn?
It's plenty for people who want to enjoy a nice afternoon in the city while chatting with friends over skype or checking out maps or mails on the go. |
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The Way Out
join:2003-01-20 | Been there, done that - Santa Clara, Cupertino, & Sunnyvale
MetroFi has already done this in the South Bay -- in the next city over from Google HQ. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| reply to ftthz
Re: Rollout won't begin until 2007
said by ftthz  : free is nice "Nothings cheaper than free"
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Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
Premium
join:2004-01-06
Sweden
 ·Verizon FIOS
·Optimum Online
|  They Keep on Complaining!
What a bunch of fools. This is a free service! That means you don't pay jack shit for it. What do people expect? A free service is there for you to get work done and to better society, not for you to stream movies on! If you want that pay the $20 a month, pay whatever it is to the cell phone companies for faster access (and limits) or pay thousands and start your own. This is remarkable they are offering 300kbps.I can't think of any other city I have been in that offered free citywide Wifi. If I wanted WiFi, I'd have to go leech off some unsecured router.
-Tzale |
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Michieru2
zzz zzz zzz
Premium
join:2005-01-28
Miami, FL | reply to Transmaster
Re: 300kbps?
Tell Joe if there are any blueberry bagels in there  |
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