p2pnet - rss feed: Washington ferry goes Wi-Fi
p2pnet.net News:- Washington State Ferries will free Wi-Fi service to passengers on its Seattle-area routes this fall, say COMPUTERWORLD here, quoting Jim Long, IT director for the ferry system.
It’s just finished testing the Wi-Fi service on the M/V Klickitat on the Port Townsend-Keystone route and the quality of service "could not have been better," says Long.
He’d like to have all 25 boats in the ferry fleet connected to a wireless WAN that treats each "individual ferry boat like an office building" hooked up to a wired WAN, says the report.
August 25th, 2004 at 4:18 pm
” once the trials end next March … Because of the infrastructure costs involved, he said he expects any permanent Wi-Fi system to be fee-based.”
So enjoy it while it lasts. This appears to be the test run for a fee-based service. That might mean that although free, the service requires opening an account to login and access the network. (perhaps ID and CC req’d) Due to the USA’s current police-state mentality, don’t count on being able to do much anonymously, especially anything travel-related.
As many P2P users slapped by RIAA lawsuits are discovering, the internet is generally not anonymous. WI-FI however offers the possibility of being untraceable - but the question is whether Big Entertainment - or Big Government - will allow this to go unchallenged.