[Cu-wireless] Urbana City Building Update:

[Illustrious niteshad]

----- Original Message -----
From: Sascha Meinrath <sascha at ojctech.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:44:03 -0500 (CDT)
To: wireless at ucimc.org
Subject: [Cu-wireless] Urbana City Building Update:

> Hi all,
> 
> The City of Urbana has just agreed to host a wireless node on the roof of 
> the city building and provide us with a connection point for the node.  
> This is _great_ news for the network since it both sets a precedent for 
> the city's involvement and gains us access to a T1.  It's taken about 
> one-and-a-half years to get this far, but it's a big leap forward for the 
> project.  We also will be extending this access area to the Farmer's 
> Market, so look for wireless internet connectivity there by the end of the 
> season.
> 

Presumably the city will be doing some kind of bandwidth throttling between the wireless node and the T1 during regular business hours.  Otherwise, I see us gleefully sucking up all of that tasty, low-latency T1 24/7.  Then again, getting back to basics, that T1 wouldn't exist except for our tax dollars...


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