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- 7/6/07 11:10 AM
PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you...
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 7/6/07 11:10 AM
If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you still continue to pay a provider for home Internet service?
-- Yes (Why?)
-- No (I know it's free, but aren't there security issues or lack of bandwidth, and other concerns?)
-- It depends (Please explain.)
-- I'm already using my city's free Wi-Fi at home (How is it?)
-- My city has free Wi-Fi, but I still pay for my own service (Reasons?)
Nope, too slow. . .
by Coryphaeus - 7/6/07 3:59 PM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If they ever reach 6-7 Mb/s like my cable, I'll think about it.
Nope
by x.killeddestiny.x - 7/6/07 7:52 PM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
That would be so insanely slow having an intire city on one network. I think they have it in some parts of my city but apparently theres this crazy huge set up. None the less I need FAST internet
WHY
by samlopez - 7/6/07 7:57 PM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have a static address and it is much faster than wireless.
As I upload and download quite a bit I need the faster link.
RE: Poll
by mattkenseth17 - 7/6/07 8:00 PM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
No, mainly because nothing is really "free", there is always a catch. "Free" Wi-Fi internet access is no different. The catch is most likely higher taxes, endless banner ads, or endless pop-ups. Does anybody remember when NetZero was free? You could not get away from the banners.
YES I would keep my old service
by stanlittle44104 - 7/6/07 8:05 PM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I would always like a backup, but that maybe just me
Free is nice - but
by rhomp2002 - 7/6/07 8:08 PM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am very leery of anyone making me all these free offers of special services. I am not a huge security maven but I do not like the idea of all my stuff out there even more than it already is. That is also why I do not like the idea of the virtual storage that is being talked up now. I want my stuff to remain exclusively my stuff as much as possible and throwing it out there on a huge public wireless network run by the city is not my idea of good security. The government is into my stuff too much already and enough is enough.
I agree %2000!
by btljooz - 7/7/07 10:05 AM In reply to: Free is nice - but by rhomp2002I could NOT have said it better, myself. Thank you, rhomp2002 
wi-fi
by 2010chris - 7/6/07 8:53 PM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
my city is too cheap to off this so i wont have to worrry about it lol
Re: City Too Cheap Too!!!
by mudfence - 7/6/07 11:23 PM In reply to: wi-fi by 2010chrisMy city would never do it either, but I have so many great neighbors with wireless routers that I hardly ever even hook up to my own cable. I guess they know now cause they all have passwords and now I hook to my cable!!!!
Free Wifi?
by mlzielke - 7/6/07 9:13 PM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My 86 year old uncle lives in a community that has free wifi.....only problem is, the tower locations are clustered in the business district and there is a very annoying banner that scrolls across the bottom. It's not usable in the residential areas, unless you are very close to a tower in the downtown area. Not worth it, in my humble opinion.
It's here but unusable
by larrymcg - 7/6/07 10:14 PM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My city has free Wi-Fi but it's slow compared to my cable connection and reception inside a house is iffy. I live about 290 feet from the nearest Wi-Fi antenna and no one has been able to get a signal in the house and just barely in the yard.
I can't figure out why cities are putting in city-wide Wi-Fi when mostly it is unusable inside a house!
Sometimes you get...
by Brock Tungsten - 7/7/07 1:47 AM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
...what you pay for. A free service is bound to be popular and I would have to share band width with so many others that it would be slow at best. Second, with a free service you might have to live with a lower expectation of privacy. Messages I send to or receive from my friends, family and physician may not be embarrassing, but they are no one else's business. If I pay for a service I expect my ISP to live up to its privacy policy, to the letter. That may not be so simple with a free service.
Maybe I am wrong, maybe I am being a bit paranoid. Maybe not.
wireless internet
by lynjs - 7/8/07 10:25 AM In reply to: Sometimes you get... by Brock TungstenI agree with your comment. My town does not offer free wi-fi. And given the situation of my town, I don't think they know what wi-fi is.
With that said, I would prefer to pay for my own based on all of the concerns that you listed, with privacy being the key concern. People can say that they lines ae secure. But they are as secure as the person that put them in place.
If my town had the brains to acquire wi-fi, I would probably keep the existing dsl I have through bellsouth.net because of the privacy issue.
Free WiFi good idea in theory
by vdblu - 7/7/07 1:52 AM In reply to: PolI: If your city offered free Wi-Fi access, would you... by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Free Wi-Fi sounds like a good idea but in theory but there's also the practical aspects like speed (it may be ok for regular things like email or regular surfing but too slow for things like downloading), security (It will definitely not be where I'd do online banking).
If Free Wi-Fi was offered in my area, I'd probably use it only as a last resort. I'd still keep my fast, home network. That said, I still think it's a good idea to provide in a city for free.
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