Friday, July 14, 2006

Free Broadband?

Could someone in the know enlighten
us about WiFi access from the set up at
the Town Hall please.
(Questian from Anonymous)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you drive around the town centre with a laptop you can find plenty of "open" wireless networks where the owners havent been bothered to turn the encription on! From my house which is off the high street there are 5 open networks!

Anonymous said...

It would cost businesses nothing to leave their wireless routers on and unencrypted out of business hours and let anyone who can pick up a signal have some free internet access. Their own data needs to be properly protected regardless of who is using their connection so that is not an issue. Its really something thats so cheap for telcos to provide that any extra cost would be minimal but I expect idiots would ruin it for everyone else by hogging bandwidth with massive downloads.

Anonymous said...

From my own experience, most businesses who use computers would not know how to secure their own systems, so promoting the fact that they have open broadband would be an invite for anyone to browse their pcs!

Anonymous said...

I just read that the state of Goa in India is installing 1 gig broadband to all homes, with a speed increase to 10 gig next year. Makes our 8 meg top speed look pretty puny.