A 501 Tech Club Event from NTEN
Posted by Russell Senior on 18 July 2008NTEN is putting on a panel session at the end of the month relating to wifi in Portland. The MetroFi experience will be included.
Join with members of the Personal Telco Project, NTEN and the City of Portland to learn more about and discuss the history, progress, and future of municipal wireless. This is a great opportunity to hear about efforts like MetroFi and Personal Telco, as well as how you can get involved in improving your neighborhood’s networks.
DATE: Thursday, July 31st
TIME: 6 pm - 8 pm
PLACE: Lucky Lab Brew Hall (SE Hawthorne)
“I feel happy! I feel happy!”
Posted by Russell Senior on 5 July 2008On the evening of July 2, we took a little loop drive around the heart of what had been the MetroFi network. We discovered that, indeed, the network was largely gone, at least as visible in the 2.4GHz band. We did find an exception, however, when we drove along a promontory on the shoulder of Mt Tabor. We saw one SkyPilot still beaconing MetroFi-Free/MetroFi-Premium. We consulted our listing of BSSID’s to identify where it was located, and then today as we were driving nearby, we stopped and succeeed in associating and connecting to the internet through it.
So even though it’ll be stone dead in a moment, if you want to get your free tubes from MetroFi-Free a little bit longer, there’s at least one place in town to do it.
“I think I’ll go for a walk!”
MetroFi network has been turned off
Posted by Russell Senior on 1 July 2008Apparently sometime around 5pm this afternoon, the MetroFi network was turned off, sources say. For the last few weeks, the ads and splash page had been turned off, and today, a day later than they’d indicated to the press, the MetroFi-Free and MetroFi-Premium SSIDs apparently got switched off. We are going to make an brief foray this evening to confirm, but it looks like the MetroFi experiment in Portland is over.