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It’s been one year since the GoogleWiFi system brought wireless to all of Mountain View, California. The system has had problems with coverage and network performance as well as with security. However, the one year anniversary announcement on the Google Blog reports a number of positive experiences for the system’s users. Traffic on the network has grown approximately ten percent each month in the last year to bring the numbers up to about 15,000 unique users in 25,000 homes monthly.

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TK Junk Mail
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Learn all about Google WiFi in Mountain View here ........

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»wifi.google.com/

Q&A here: »wifi.google.com/support/?hl=en

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»wifi.google.com/support/bin/answ···pic=8330

HardwareGeek

join:2003-11-15
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Re: Learn all about Google WiFi in Mountain View here ........

How can the number of unqique users be less than the number of homes it is in.

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Re: Learn all about Google WiFi in Mountain View here ........

said by HardwareGeek See Profile :

How can the number of unqique users be less than the number of homes it is in.
»googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/···ifi.html
The network's 400+ mesh routers cover about 12 square miles and 25,000 homes to serve approximately 15,000 unique users each week month.
The 25,000 homes is "HOMES PASSED or Reachable" and not how many homes are using it. And the 15,000 customers in a month is the number of unique users that includes people who live there, work there, and visitors as well.
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I'd say this is awesome since it's totally free to anyone in the town. Basically Google is doing this just out of a sense of generosity for it's hometown.

Plus, I'm sure it makes a great R&D project that gains them real world application knowledge.

Kudos to them.
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S_engineer

join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL

Wondering..

since this quote was tsken from the link above..."In order to make our service easily accessible to a large number of WiFi-enabled devices, Google WiFi is an open-access wireless network, and our signal is not encrypted", does this mean I can be arrested for using it in a car ( i.e.some of the earlier weeks topics)?

I guess what I'm saying is that if google can offer free wifi why can't others? I mean afterall, you have to know if it's unsecured, its an open network!
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Kyle

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Re: Wondering..

it maybe free but look at the problems they have along with other networks built the same way. Earthlink has a ton of problems with overage and MetroFi does too. They need more APs than what they want to put up and pay for. The bandwidth alone is the killer in a big share of the deal along with the equipment costs. Troops devices are not cheap; and that's what they're using.

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So how many have used this free connection to get free pron ROFL.

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Do they consider that broadband?

"up to" 1mbps each way?

That may be nice for getting some stuff on your phone or notebook while on the road, but I can't see that being satisfactory for home use broadband.

On Optimum Online, people complain when they are only getting 20mbps download speeds.
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Ahrenl

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Re: Do they consider that broadband?

It'd would be perfectly acceptable to anyone who purchased minimum DSL (and some cable) packages, which is most. It would not be acceptable to heavy bandwidth users who are willing to pay a premium anyway.

jaa
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Re: Do they consider that broadband?

Even so - 1mbps is a joke.
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