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Network World Canada provides a little back and forth between telco Rogers Communications and Toronto Hydro: The former backs WiMax as the coming thing, so why bother with Wi-Fi. The latter once had plans for a large city-wide Wi-Fi network, and defends that technology’s ubiquity and cost. Mobile WiMax isn’t yet mobile; Wi-Fi is. WiMax in Canada is enormously more expensive in this pre-standard version: C$45 to C$65 per month; Toronto’s Wi-Fi, C$29.
Only problem? Toronto’s Wi-Fi network hasn’t increased in area for some time, and the head of the company, quoted in this article extolling Wi-Fi, fails to mention its tiny size. It was rated very heavily by Novarum, a testing firm, partly because of the density of access points installed. Their six sq km network has under 4,000 users, and they went say how many below. But they won’t build the network further until subscribers top that figure.
Posted by Glennf at August 4, 2007 10:16 AM
Categories: Metro-Scale Networks, Municipal
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Seems like a common thing here, I'll add my self to the list of people who can't get their network to work consistently.
Posted by: Dave Forde (Profectio.com) at August 7, 2007 7:48 AM
I live in Toronto, and I've tried to use the wifi on three different machines and occasions.
every time it's the same - register by sms autoresponse - but they dont send a response, so youre out of luck. :(
Posted by: johnny at August 4, 2007 3:44 PM
Can't say I've had a lot of success using Toronto Hydro's Wi-Fi network. Even when you do get on, the signal is, at best, mediocre.
Posted by: Mark Evans at August 4, 2007 1:30 PM