The Bells Eye Wi-Fi Cable a little slower to embrace The Wall Street Journal dissects the bell effort to offer free or discounted Wi-Fi gear in the hopes of appealing to consumers. While both Verizon and SBC now give away Wi-Fi routers after a rebate, Qwest now gives all new customers the Actiontec GT701-wg, a DSL modem with integrated Wi-Fi built in. According to the WSJ, SBC has sold the Wi-Fi equipment to more than 700,000 customers. The article hints that while the cable industry is starting to embrace Wi-Fi, they still tend to see hotspot operation as stealing - touching briefly on Time Warner Cable' shaky history of threatening hotspot operators.
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  Doctor OldsI Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.Premium,VIP
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1 edit | Smypatico does this with an Efficient 6300 Gateway The US is behind again.  | |
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Toronto, ON | Re: Sympatico does this with an Efficient 6300 Gat Bell Canada also runs their own 802.11b Wi-Fi access hotspots in Canadian cities (called Access Zone and Zone D'Acces), including roaming hotspots on VIA Rail trains along the Montreal-Toronto corridor. | |
| |  TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
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1 edit | Re: Smypatico does this with an Efficient 6300 Gateway This speedstream gateway can this on be obtained stateside
and configured for Qwest.
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Cheyenne, WY | Re: Smypatico does this with an Efficient 6300 Gat Why in the world didn't Qwest use these Zoom gateways instead of these junkie Actiontecs
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kudos:18 | Re: Smypatico does this with an Efficient 6300 Gat It's not a Zoom, it is a Siemens Efficient Speedstream.
»www.efficient.com/subscriber_net···00.shtml
quote:
Combined DSL and wireless networking solution
The SpeedStream® 6300 Gateway provides integrated 802.11g wireless networking for a convenient all-in-one solution. The SpeedStream® 6300 Wireless DSL Gateway comes with the ControlNet™ application, the cornerstone to enabling a value-added services model.
PDF Datasheet
»www.efficient.com/subscriber_net···heet.pdf
Interfaces include:
5 10/100 Switched Ethernet Ports (4 LAN, 1 LAN/WAN)
1 USB connection
1 Serial Console port
1 802.11g/802.11b wireless
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| Wifi I run a Wifi Router and share my connection but only with MY computers. Why should anyone wish to share their net access with others, whien they don't know what they are doing. What if your wireless partner were downloading illegal content, since you provided the connection you would be responsible for the content, and the legal fees if a lawsuit came about. | |
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Hermitage, TN | All the bells??? Where is bellsouth in this...Oh wait, they don't like offering services that better benefit the consumer >.> | |
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Morganton, NC | Re: All the bells??? said by yocheo:
Where is bellsouth in this...Oh wait, they don't like offering services that better benefit the consumer >.>
Here is where Bellsouth is on this, from this very site a few months back:
»BellSouth Offers Free Wi-Fi
And here is a link to the hotspots.
»contact.bellsouth.com/wifi/venues.asp
This is a trial, but if it works out well, I would expect ti to be expanded. Probably not in smaller cities, but into most of the larger ones.
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| | | Doctor OldsI Need A Remedy For What's Ailing Me.Premium,VIP
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kudos:18 | Re: All the bells??? The article is not about Hotspots, but about DSL CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) that has Wireless included.
Unless I've read it wrong. 
See my topic »Smypatico does this with an Efficient 6300 Gateway
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| An attempt to beat competition? This actually has a couple fronts.
1. The more 802.11 access points that are deployed the more interference that is caused in the 2.4ghz bands, often a band wireless internet service providers use.
2. Cable has yet to give away routers, most just "loan" the modem out.
3. Small providers cannot do this. The whole "line sharing" effect means that the small guys are already paying the telco for the line. Then the telco offers service for less than the guys who are using the line plus throw in extras. No doubt also an effort to get rid of those pesky little guys sharing there lines (by law).
Whats next? Free Television when you sign up for a year of the "bundled" Dish, DSL and Telephone service. | |
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Savannah, GA | Re: An attempt to beat competition?
Free Television when you sign up for a year of the "bundled" Dish, DSL and Telephone service.
 thats a crazy bundle, but it could happen. Some providers *comcast* make you take useless services to get broadband. And Comcast is not alone it that. If you dont have access to Naked DSL you are stuck with paying extra for stuff you dont need or dial-up. Damn I forgot I have to pay for teh phone line if I get Dial-up.... we go round and round. | |
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