Comments on: Find the free WiFi here…! http://ourpdx.com/2008/06/find-the-free-wifi-here/ Collaborative coverage of news and events, with a focus on community. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:05:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Russell Senior http://ourpdx.com/2008/06/find-the-free-wifi-here/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Russell Senior Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:13:31 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=98#comment-241 The <a href="http://map.personaltelco.net" rel="nofollow">Personal Telco Project (PTP) map</a> is far from perfect, so it pains me to criticize, possibly causing my glass house to explode into tiny shards, but the WifiPDX map is painfully stale in a number of cases. For example, The Daily Double (a former PTP node) has been out of business for at least a couple years now. Also a bunch of active Personal Telco nodes are missing. These things need active maintenance, ideally by the users that can find obscure locations and report on status. Every year or so, the Personal Telco tries to audit its nodes to determine whether indeed the nodes we think are there, really still are. If people want to report PTP outages, please do so at: info@personaltelco.net. Also, if you've got an internet connection at home or at your business, consider sharing it with your community and join Personal Telco in making Portland a better place. It isn't that hard. Personal Telco has been around for 8 years, we know how to do this stuff, we are here to help. Be the Free Wifi. The Personal Telco Project (PTP) map is far from perfect, so it pains me to criticize, possibly causing my glass house to explode into tiny shards, but the WifiPDX map is painfully stale in a number of cases. For example, The Daily Double (a former PTP node) has been out of business for at least a couple years now. Also a bunch of active Personal Telco nodes are missing. These things need active maintenance, ideally by the users that can find obscure locations and report on status. Every year or so, the Personal Telco tries to audit its nodes to determine whether indeed the nodes we think are there, really still are. If people want to report PTP outages, please do so at: info@personaltelco.net.

Also, if you’ve got an internet connection at home or at your business, consider sharing it with your community and join Personal Telco in making Portland a better place. It isn’t that hard. Personal Telco has been around for 8 years, we know how to do this stuff, we are here to help.

Be the Free Wifi.

]]> By: Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 29 » Silicon Florist http://ourpdx.com/2008/06/find-the-free-wifi-here/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for June 29 » Silicon Florist Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:59:46 +0000 http://ourpdx.net/?p=98#comment-195 [...] Find the free WiFi here…! Betsy Richter writes “But if I need to find a WiFi node that also has pie? Is open 24 hours? Located near the place I’m going to be tonight? Or has a way to send my search via text message? I’m going to be using WiFiPDX from now on.” [...] [...] Find the free WiFi here…! Betsy Richter writes “But if I need to find a WiFi node that also has pie? Is open 24 hours? Located near the place I’m going to be tonight? Or has a way to send my search via text message? I’m going to be using WiFiPDX from now on.” [...]

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