Jon
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Lisle, IL | "speeds were slow and coverage was spotty"
When you're paying, then you can bitch. |
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ninjatutle
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San Ramon, CA | Its only free for 30 days. She is a reporter albeit a blogger 
Isnt that what reporters are suppose to do? Report, duh. |
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Rob
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Kendall, FL
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said by Jon  :When you're paying, then you can bitch. Well, if it's slow and spotty, why would anyone pay for it?
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TKJunkMail
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Avalon, NJ
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Just because it is free doesn't mean that it is worth using. The reporter was seeing if the product works - it apparently doesn't work very well. Just like most of these citywide WiFi rollouts.
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brianiscool
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Miami, FL |  Odd
This company is still around? |
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC
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Re: "speeds were slow and coverage was spotty"
said by TKJunkMail :Just because it is free doesn't mean that it is worth using. The reporter was seeing if the product works - it apparently doesn't work very well. Just like most of these citywide WiFi rollouts. "Speeds were slow and coverage was spotty" is no where near a detailed enough analysis to say it doesn't work very well.
Where was she trying to get coverage? Was she indoors, outdoors? What does she mean by slow exactly? Slow browsing? What was slow, the initial request or the actual downloading of the page? Or was she perhaps visiting a busy website?
I think the part that "doesn't work very well" are most people's expectation that WiFi rolled out across an entire city will work as well as their home broadband connection.
Hell, by her definition my cellphone "doesn't work very well" and Verizon has spent BILLIONS to design and roll out their network.
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jimzzzak
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Austin, TX | new orleans
Slow and spotty sounds apropos for New Orleans. |
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funkyfelty
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Lebanon, PA
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You guys have to remember, when these systems get turned on, there are always going to be dead spots, engineering mesh networks inside of a city is not an exact science, every city has different interference and geographical issues.
Give them some time, Tropos Gear (What they are using) is really good gear and was you tinker a little with a new mesh network, they will get it working better
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Jon
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Lisle, IL
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Re: "speeds were slow and coverage was spotty"
said by TKJunkMail :Just because it is free doesn't mean that it is worth using. The reporter was seeing if the product works - it apparently doesn't work very well. Just like most of these citywide WiFi rollouts. Would nothing be better? They can have that too.. |
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