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Re: wireless internet at Austin airport
From: Laurence C. Brevard (laurence.brevard@medispecialty.com)
Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:28:11 -0500
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At 12:13 AM 8/24/2000, Gene Crick wrote:>who's the best vendor to contact on this? I'd like more info.
http://www.wayport.com is providing the service in Austin and DFW.
I bought the IEEE 802.11b PCMCIA wireless adapter from http://www.cdw.com for just under $200. It is made by Cabletron.
>thanks,
>gene
>
>On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Bruce Speyer wrote:
>
> > At 09:49 PM 8/22/2000 -0500, Bruce Speyer wrote:
> >
> > >i turned on my computer at the airport with the wireless card plugged in
> > >and here i am on the internet. only thing i did was put the card in the
> > >machine and signup in advance with Wayport. In fact, I'm not sure it was
> > >even necessary to signup with Wayport. They may not yet be enforcing
> > >authentication. it just works
> >
> > I watching Mary Zoe off our website site at 220KB bitstream rate for a
> very
> > smooth video. Downloaded at the same time 9.5MB zip file in under 2-1/2
> > minutes at a 66KB/sec transfer rate. In other words FAST like the T1 at
> > the office.
> >
> > Only bad thing is Austin is one of only a few airports that have wireless
> > Internet installed but in another year it will be common in all airports
> > and good hotels.
> >
> > Neato
> > Bruce
> >
> > Thanks Laurence for buying the card so we could try it out.
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