Wi-Fi for Islington
p2pnet.net News:- Upper Street, in Islington, London in the UK, has gone hot.
It’s now boasting ‘Technology Mile’, a W-Fi broadband network with free access to the internet and council services stretching from The Angel to Highbury Corner.
It has a mile of unbroken coverage via lamp-post mounted access points at 200 metre intervals.
“Coverage is very good,” says Fletch. "It doesn’t seem to reach the Angel tube end, but Islington Green and St Mary’s Church areas have excellent coverage.
"The scheme seems to be an extension of the now well known Streetnet project, and requires a free login, and gives an hour’s access, before requiring you to login again. It is web only, so email needs to be via a web based provider."
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Fletch – Warchalking London, June 11, 2005
June 13th, 2005 at 11:22 am
The scheme seems to be an extension of the now well known Streetnet project, and requires a free login, and gives an hour’s access, before requiring you to login again.
They probably keep logs which would report the ip to the monopolist corporations or agencies to counteract p2p. Someone should go up there and get a id and hook up thier iphantom. Next they should upload at max speed and dl at the same. I wonder how much of this could go on before there would be bandwidth lag?