Forbes has put together a list of most wired cities in the US, which puts Atlanta at #1, San Francisco somewhere down there, and San Jose nowhere. Don’t ask! In response, we checked with WiFi directory service, JiWire and found that San Francisco is the most “unwired” city and has 805 hotspots, including 375 free ones. New York is #2 with 669 hotspots, followed by Chicago with 551. Atlanta ranked at #8 with 372 hotspots, 94 of them free.
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America’s most wired city - Atlanta!…
Who knew? With most of the U.S. technology industry focused on the East and West coasts, you’d think the best place to get online would be San Francisco, or perhaps New York City. But Atlanta tops Forbes.com’s survey of America’s…
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Wired vs. Unwired…
For you Wifi junkies, here is a list of America’s Most Wired Cities - Forbes.com and another list of America’s most unwired cities. Thank Jayne!…
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Please correct me if I’m wrong — didnt sprint use the Bay Area as the test bed for WiMax & Mobile Wimax network? Oh my bad, according to Forbes, it’s better to be wired down. Who cares?
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In the article, it mentions that 8% of home internet connections are wireless broadband. This is misleading because - how do they define “wireless broadband”? If it all means just connecting a WiFi router to home DSL/cable modem and then connect to internet, then probably that fact is true.
But in reality, wireless broadband means connecting to internet through WiMax of EVDO/UMTS 3/3.5G networks.
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Forbes?
SF must now be the most wired? The short Google mention seems off-Base (pun intended). The Google Wi-Fi map of Mountain View, Ca sure makes it look wired around there.
I’d say my city is one of the most unwired. Mountain View, Hi 96771. My treehouse is wired but I think we have more people without electricity around here than SF and Atlanta has people without Internet connections.
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