GoogleWiFi One Year Later

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»wifi.google.com/

Q&A here: »wifi.google.com/support/?hl=en

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How can the number of unqique users be less than the number of homes it is in.

»googleblog.blogspot.com/ ··· ifi.htmlThe 25,000 homes is "HOMES PASSED or Reachable" and not how many homes are using it. And the 15,000 customers in a month is the number of unique users that includes people who live there, work there, and visitors as well.

I'd say this is awesome since it's totally free to anyone in the town. Basically Google is doing this just out of a sense of generosity for it's hometown.

Plus, I'm sure it makes a great R&D project that gains them real world application knowledge.

Kudos to them.

since this quote was tsken from the link above..."In order to make our service easily accessible to a large number of WiFi-enabled devices, Google WiFi is an open-access wireless network, and our signal is not encrypted", does this mean I can be arrested for using it in a car ( i.e.some of the earlier weeks topics)?

I guess what I'm saying is that if google can offer free wifi why can't others? I mean afterall, you have to know if it's unsecured, its an open network!

it maybe free but look at the problems they have along with other networks built the same way. Earthlink has a ton of problems with overage and MetroFi does too. They need more APs than what they want to put up and pay for. The bandwidth alone is the killer in a big share of the deal along with the equipment costs. Troops devices are not cheap; and that's what they're using.

So how many have used this free connection to get free pron ROFL.

"up to" 1mbps each way?

That may be nice for getting some stuff on your phone or notebook while on the road, but I can't see that being satisfactory for home use broadband.

On Optimum Online, people complain when they are only getting 20mbps download speeds.

It'd would be perfectly acceptable to anyone who purchased minimum DSL (and some cable) packages, which is most. It would not be acceptable to heavy bandwidth users who are willing to pay a premium anyway.

Even so - 1mbps is a joke.