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roamer1
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join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA
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|  A little surprising, really
Residential broadband certainly is ubiquitous around here -- much of Atlanta's business base revolves around tech and telecom, and more and more people telecommute because of the notorious traffic congestion. The choice of providers is actually rather limited OTP (outside the Perimeter), though, mostly because of the sprawl that has led BellSouth to extensively use RTs and FTTC. Most people OTP and many ITP have a choice of only BellSouth.net, Earthlink, and just two smaller local ISPs (SF, AtNex) for DSL, and save for a few apartment complexes with oddball crap, either Comcast or Charter for cable; availability of Covad and other ISPs that use them is pretty much limited to areas ITP and some small pockets of Dunwoody, Lilburn, central Marietta, etc. WISPs are all but nonexistent, largely because of the terrain and heavy foliage.
As for Wi-Fi, Atlanta has never struck me as a city that's big into it, probably because of the heavily car-centric commuter culture. That said, hotspots seem to be popping up at places I'd never expect them lately, so maybe that's starting to change now that people are moving back intown.
-SC (who's lived in metro Atlanta since '97)
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fuziwuzi
Not born yesterday
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join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA
| I live in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, one of the more densely populated for residential and business use. I've experimented with "wi-fi" here but the only signals I could see are from unprotected private-user routers. Sure, I could walk down the street to Borders, Barns&Noble, or Starbucks and use the wi-fi there, but I'm talking for home use there is nothing other than DSL or Cable, and you're pretty much limited to the telco (Bellsouth)or Comcast for those. | |
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