Free WiFi at Starbucks Starting this spring Starbucks, in cooperation with AT&T Wi-Fi Service, will offer free WiFi internet at Starbucks locations. A paragraph from the press release is below. Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) today announced a new comprehensive communications agreement with AT&T that will enhance the enterprise networking capabilities for Starbucks by streamlining business [...]
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Long Range WiFi Back in 2005, Team iFiber Redwire “shattered their previous world record of 55.1 miles, and the ground-to-ground amplified record of 82 miles set in Utah. Team iFiber Redwire achieved an unamplified, 124.9-mile, 11-Mbit connection for 3 hours.” Huge Antennas One of the biggest myths related to wireless LAN security is that placing [...]
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Google’s Mountain View WiFi network celebrated its first anniversary and they posted several interesting data points about the network. 400+ mesh routers 12 square mile coverage and 25,000 homes 15,000 unique users per month 300 gigabytes per day (has grown 10% a month since beginning of 2007) 100 distinct types of WiFi devices 95 percent [...]
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Kaspersky Lab recently published a report about WiFi networks in London. The report contains the usual information about transmission speeds, equipment manufacturers, and use of encryption. One not so usual tidbit was the increased trend in using SSIDs for advertising purposes. One interesting phenomenon is the tendency to use hotspots for subliminal advertising. Every client [...]
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