Wireless Bandit

Second Cup - 340 College Street - Toronto

Physical Landmark: Second Cup - 340 College Street - Toronto
Major Intersection: College Street just west of Spadina at Augusta
GPS Lat: 43.65732
GPS Lon: -79.40326

Network Name: linksys-g
WEP: No
Type: Free
Location: Coffee Shop
Contributor: d3h
Comments: Origin Unknown

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24 Mabelle off of Dundas St , 2 lights west of Islington

Physical Landmark: 24 Mabelle off of Dundas St , 2 lights west of Islington
Major Intersection: Dundas and Eglinton
GPS Lat: 43.64627
GPS Lon: -79.52658

Network Name: WLAN
WEP: No
Type: Residential
Location: House
Contributor: kreeperzulu444e
Comments: Origin Unknown

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63 Widdicombe Hill

Physical Landmark: 63 Widdicombe Hill
Major Intersection: Between Kipling and Martin Grove off of Eglinton
GPS Lat: 43.67705
GPS Lon: -79.55786

Network Name: default
WEP: No
Type: Residential
Location: Apartment
Contributor: kreeperzulu444e
Comments: Origin Unknown

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Bloor Street West, 1 block east of Islington, North/West Corner

Physical Landmark: Bloor Street West and Islington - North/West Corner
Major Intersection: Bloor and Islington 1 block east of Islington
GPS Lat: 43.64460
GPS Lon: -79.52340

Network Name: WLAN
WEP: No
Type: Residential
Location: Road
Contributor: kreeperzulu444e
Comments: Origin Unknown

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Telabria builds major WiFi install in Kent UK

Big news out of the UK, working with a local Markham-based telecom provider...

2270 Searches since Jun 2002

Since Jun 24 2002, WB has been recording searches against blog entries. This does not include and searches against the interactive hotspot mapping database since that is a separate application.

2270 searches have been performed and here are some interesting stats for you to enjoy. There were MANY 1 off and 2 off searches for all types of stuff. Look at the extended entry (MORE...) for the various searches ordered by the search criteria if you wish to do some more analysis. Here are the highlights (more than 10 searches). As you can see Starbucks does have a bit of a business case to have wifi (but probably only if it is free) and Mississauga, Hamilton, Oakville, Markham, Burlington and Scarborough combined have as much interest as Toronto alone.

Keyword	# of Searches
Toronto	169
Mississauga	42
Starbucks	30
Hamilton	27
Oakville	27
Ottawa	27
BEFW11S4	25
Markham	23
Burlington	21
free	19
Scarborough	19
Second Cup	16
Richmond Hill	16
London	16
Yonge	15
test	15
Brampton	15
Pocket PC	13
Bloor	11
Eglinton	10
linksys	10
map	10
Montreal	10
North York	10
Spotnik	10
Waterloo	10

Do It Yourself USB-based wifi antennas

Wow. Look what you can do with a USB wifi adapter and a cheap set of Chinese cookware "adapters"...

Confirmed Closed Access Points

A few confirmed closed Spotnik hotspots:

537 Bloor - Second Cup
55 John St - Vineyard at Metro Hall

and Tommy's Backyard Family Restaurant hostspot closed too.

I am sure the rest of the Spotnik hotspots closed too, but I will wait for confirmation before de-listing them...

Some ROI numbers out of Texas

Muniwireless: Granbury, Texas unwired Archives

Granbury Texas is going wireless for their citizens AND their municipality services. Interesting quick ROI numbers are included.

VONAGE® AND LINKSYS® NOW OFFERING A WIRELESS-G BROADBAND ROUTER

This came in from Vonage's PR service (twice no less in one day)...

BUNDLED WITH VONAGE SERVICE

Recognizing the Need to Offer Consumers More Choices for Telephony and
Home Networking Vonage and Linksys are Changing the Way People Communicate

Edison, NJ, and Irvine, CA November 8, 2004 - Vonage Holdings Corp., the leading broadband phone company and Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, Inc., today announced the availability of the Wireless-G Broadband Router with 2 phone ports (WRT54GP2) bundled with Vonage's service. The Wireless-G Router will be available at over 7,000 retail locations nationwide and through select e-tail partners.

This Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router is four devices in one box. It includes a Wireless-G Access Point; a built-in 4-port switch to connect wired-Ethernet devices; a router function so the entire network can securely share a single cable or DSL Internet connection and two standard telephone jacks, allowing for multiple phone lines. Bundled with Vonage Internet telephony service, customers get a complete solution in one box - the hardware and service they need to start talking.