[nflug] Why not Buffalo????

[John Seth]

With as much snow and rain Buffalo gets, the connectivity would be 
terrible due to being blocked by water soaked/snow covered trees, 
buildings or whatever my interfere with wireless signals. In order to 
circumvent that, you'd need powerful signal boosters or dishes emitting 
the wireless signal, and anyone near the equipment would have a nice 
continuously boiling cup of coffee ;)

Just ask Netsync Internet Services about their business oriented 
wireless outfit in Dunkirk... some of the dishes they had when I worked 
for them were great, but they often got interrupted by snow, rain, and 
trees that had any amount of moisture on them.

That's just my opinion on it based on my experience with wireless 
Internet though.


  Tony Evans
  Phoenix Wing Interactive
  johnseth at phoenixwing.com
  http://www.phoenixwing.com/




ron browning wrote:
> Why not Buffalo????
>
> EarthLink, Google Apply For San Francisco Wireless Network
>
> The city wants to build a municipal network to give poorer residents 
> an affordable option for getting online.
>
> By _Antone Gonsalves_ <mailto:antoneg at pacbell.net>
> TechWeb News 
> <http://www.techweb.com/headlines_week/;jsessionid=SKFP0H1LSNKGWQSNDBECKH0CJUMEKJVN> 
>
>
> Feb 22, 2006 02:18 PM
> Earthlink Inc. and Google Inc. have submitted a joint proposal for 
> building a citywide wireless network in San Francisco.
> The submission in response to the city's "request for proposal" was 
> handed in this week, the companies said in a joint statement. 
> Earthlink and Google last year told the city 
> <http://internetweek.cmp.com/171202709> separately that they were 
> interested in building the project.
> The city wants to build a municipal network in order to give poorer 
> residents an affordable option for getting online. Mayor Gavin Newsom 
> launched the wireless broadband 
> <http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=broadband&x=0&y=0&_requestid=111979> 
> initiative last summer, hoping to provide free Internet access to city 
> businesses and residents.
> "This proposal presents a unique opportunity for both companies," 
> Donald Berryman, president of Earthlink's municipal networks unit, 
> said in a statement. "By coming together to leverage the strengths of 
> both companies, we will be able to offer services to different 
> customers on the network that fit with their own individual needs and 
> wants."
> Under the joint proposal, Google would provide the free Wi-Fi service 
> citywide, and Atlanta-based Earthlink would be the Internet service 
> provider, the Mountain View, Calif., search engine said.
> "We have submitted this proposal because at Google we're focused on 
> creating new technologies that make it easier for people to quickly 
> access the world's information," Google said Wednesday in a statement. 
> "It is also a way for Google to support the local community."
> Google has said it does not intend to build other wireless broadband 
> networks.
> San Francisco is among several cities looking to build municipal 
> networks. Telecom and cable providers, however, are lobbying Congress 
> to prevent cities from building public networks that would cut into 
> their businesses. Those companies include BellSouth, Comcast, Cox, 
> Qwest, SBC, now called AT&T; and Verizon.
> Pennsylvania and Virginia have passed laws restricting the use of 
> municipal networks. California, however, has no such restrictions.
>
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