Portland launches first citywide Wi-Fi

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I saw this http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/reg ... st=orlocal on the news today and immeadiately wondered how it could enhance my boating/fishing experience. I can't afford the fees charged by Verizon etal for mobile internet access. Does anyone know if this will be accessible from a boat on the Willy or Columbia ?
 
Brent – I checked the link you referred to and did not see a map of the included coverage area. Now I could have missed it, as there are over 200 direct links on the page. Could you give a link to the map.

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looking at the map I would not call that city wide covarage. Great if you are down town but if you leave the core you are done.
 
Wow... that sounds good... Go "to town" check yer stuff...and get back out to the waters. The city of Clarksville is also looking into this. I sure would like it.
 
Ah, Portland, not exactly the first city....

The City That Cut the Cord
Sleepy Spokane, Wash., has a secret: it's the wireless hot spot of the future
October 11, 2004

....In 1999, Crilly, working with another HP engineer named Bob Conley, figured out a way to run a regular wi-fi signal through a phased-array antenna, a powerful piece of hardware that's used mostly by the military. Suddenly, they had a wi-fi hot spot a couple of miles wide. The world had never seen that before. If a regular wi-fi transmitter was a candle, this thing was a baseball-stadium spotlight. They called it, for reasons best known to themselves, Little Joe.....

http://www.time.com/time/2004/wireless/story.html
 
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