The San Jose International Airport is using technology based on Apple's AirPort standard to create what it calls "the first" wireless, high-speed Internet connection network at any airport in California. The new IEEE 802.11b infrastructure will give AirPort-compatible 'net access at up to T1 speeds.
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Hope this network doesn't suffer from Power Outages like the rest of that stupid state... when will the Californians figure out how to power their state?
Who cares?
Now if only I ever travelled through San Jose. Hopefully this will do very well and other Airports will give it a try. It couldn't cost that much to implement. Airports are one of the best places I can think of for having a wireless network. A lot of people travelling through a relatively small space. Most of them are waiting around, and many have laptops and work they could be doing. Plus, there is a large turnover of people, so there is no set group that would just plug into a wired network day after day. Sounds perfect to me. Wireless isn't right for every situation, but it seems perfect for Airports. Hmmm...AirPorts for Airports. Nice.
I use that ariport several times a month. It's such a dinky little airport that need lots of help, but it's better than going to SFO.
I didn't see anything on their web site about this.
Um... It appears that since you aren't a Californian, you know absolutely NOTHING about our energy crisis. Which makes we wonder... why the heck does it matter to you? In case you're curious, its the fault of the Republican legislature 4 years ago and of the Bush administration (for not doing anything to help accept lifting anti-pollution bans). So yeah, the Golden State is still bright with electricity, still has the 6th largest economy in the world, still has the largest population in the U.S. and is way better than wherever you are from. Suck it!
Oh, and to the crazy guy who posted "big deal" - you are really out of it. Ok, so not everyone finds the beauty in Flower Power, but the TiBook? Um... show of hands people... do you want a PowerBook 5300 with MacOS 9 installed or a TiBook with those "PowerPC speeds half that of the PC." The answer is obvious. And budy, piece of advice... If you plan on blindly criticizing Apple, I think you'd be more welcome at the "PC News" forums.
a LOT of people fly into SJC.. it's in the heart of the Silicon Valley!
People blame the Democratic Gov. Gray Davis for the power crisis.. but the whole mess was caused by Pete Wilson's Republican friends. Now Bush thinks the whole solution is to drill for oil in Alaska. Moron. *sigh*
Nuclear power plants, folks.. that's the answer. Nothing else will provide enough power.
I totally agree. California is a great state for many reasons. The only reason it has some downsides has to do with horrible Republican desicions years ago.
And, yes, I would *love* to get my hands on one of those tiBooks, I think any reader of this site would. Hey, those previous posters ("heh...too bad" and "big deal") need to go somewhere else.... a couple a sour apples in the bunch.... pardon the pun.
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whats with all this negativity goin on here????
i have noticed an increased amount of childish comments about total and complete FLUFF!!!!
how old are we???
The original tagline on the front page is what attracted my attention but the thread is almost as fun to read. First off 802.11b is NOT an Apple standard. It' something that was developed by Lucent (I could be wrong there...but I'm sure I'll be corrected). Apple most assuredly deserves lots of credit for embracing it first (although Dell, Cisco and others followed soon after).
As is often the case, vendors like to make us simple consumers believe they invented whatever they're hocking. Apple is just as guilty as any other vendor on that score. Our wireless vendor wants us to think that they're the company that's going to pioneer 54 mbit wireless which is of course untrue. They're going to release their product at the end of the summer, just like Apple, Cisco, etc.
So what's the conclusion here? There isn't much of one really; businesses (Even Apple) are in the business of making money. Luckily for some of us companies like Apple also have decided that making a good product is a priority as well.
Cheers
San José might be the first airport in California to offer wireless Internet services, but word-wide there are already several places where you can log in to the Internet via AirPort cards.
To my knowledge, the first airports to offer this were Stockholm-Arlanda (Sweden) and Helsinki-Vantaa in Finland. In Finnland, there is also the Tampere-Hall, a congress and exhibition center which offers an AirPort LAN - effectively also "wiring" the whole university campus all around. At least according to some friend of mine who live nearby ;-)
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Too bad they still don't have jetways at terminal C.