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Russ Steele
The wireless coverage this year appears to be very good just about every where at the Nevada County Fair. At the Senior Center the Gold County Computer Learning Center has a strong signal. On Treat Street Full Spectrum has a strong signal. Both the Leaning Center and Full Spectrum WiFi services were open to all users. There were several closed networks evident on the iPod. It looks like WiFi is being used for management functions as well as open communications.
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Russ, this is an excellent resource - keep up the good work. Today I'm looking for a free wifi hotspot and the Fair is long over, so I'll keep looking. I attended a couple of the Telecom Committee meetings, and am glad it has morphed. I'll subscribe to the RSS to keep informed.
Last year Hugh Tower in GV set me up with Wild Blue - the Pro Package @ $79/mo - and it works fine, albiet sometimes not as fast as I like. It even holds the VPN connecion (ATT Dialer) several days.
Sadly, performance thru the Tunnel is terrible because of - I believe - the satellite latency. Thus, I can surf fairly well, but logging into remote Unix/Linux machines and running X-windows is almost impossible. So I have been talking with Smarter Broadband whilst waiting for my WildBlue contract to expire.
I'll be doing a VPN throughput test at a friend's house this week and hope to spend even more money on my Internet. I'll drop another comment as I have info.
Posted by: Charlie Kotan | August 27, 2008 at 10:05 AM