{"id":1336,"date":"2007-09-21T04:01:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T09:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2007-09-21T04:01:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T09:01:02","slug":"down-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Down Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The municipal wi-fi fad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/Story?id=3627461&#038;page=1\">seems to be suffering network difficulties<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Wi-Fi woes everywhere you turn,&#8221; says Russell Hancock of Silicon Valley Network, a troubled Wi-Fi project for 40 towns in California&#8217;s high-tech corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Wi-Fi allows laptop users to work anywhere, making some jobs portable. It also is essential to mobile devices, including iPhones, enabling such emerging technology to perform complex online tasks fast.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago couldn&#8217;t reach agreement with service providers after offering free use of street lamps for radio transmitters in exchange for a network built, owned and operated by providers at no cost to the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Minneapolis&#8217; net <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itbusinessedge.com\/item\/?ci=32228\">got a lot of good publicity<\/a> after the 35W bridge collapse &#8211; but has had other problems.\u00a0 Saint Paul has been noodling with the idea for years, and is no closer to a solution than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The municipal wi-fi fad seems to be suffering network difficulties: &#8220;Wi-Fi woes everywhere you turn,&#8221; says Russell Hancock of Silicon Valley Network, a troubled Wi-Fi project for 40 towns in California&#8217;s high-tech corridor. Wi-Fi allows laptop users to work anywhere, making some jobs portable. It also is essential to mobile devices, including iPhones, enabling such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}