Comments on: Earthlink Unwires Milpitas http://gigaom.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Morris http://gigaom.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130321 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:16:20 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130321 I’d have to have really solid city-wide serice which worked well from my home to consider 21.95 / month. Unfortunately, this is the sort of network which is hard to test on a comparative basis since you pretty much need a home or office in the covered area.

I tried really hard to utilize MetroFi in Cupertino including purchasing the recommended roof top access device. When they got all their devices actually working, I found it still wasn’t reliable. It was impossible to manage. Their network wasn’t designed properly for the Tranzeo AP devices they recommended, etc. There was no way to have a management session with the Tranzeo device AND be online at the same time. I spent hours on the phone with Tranzeo tech support and much more time interacting with MetroFi support.

I don’t know the details of the Earthlink setup in Milpitas, but I know that MetroFi needs at least 4X APs to get adequate coverage. They also need a system solution that doesn’t take a network engineer to keep a home connection working.

]]> By: Kimo Crossman http://gigaom.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130320 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 05:21:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130320 Checkout the draft contract between San Francisco and Earthlink.

Oddly they are writing it in a way that the city is obtaining no wireless services from EarthLink.

This is unlike most other municipal wifi rollouts which use the city as an anchor tenant to fund their rollout.

This is probably smoke and mirrors so that the city can politically say they are spending no money on the deal and then as soon as it goes through they’ll issue a sole source contract for um city wifi services to help EarthLink fund the deal.

]]> By: Josh http://gigaom.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130319 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:38:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130319 There is too great Indian food in SF. Try Tandoori Mahal at Kearny and Columbus! It’s a small buffet with butter chicken to die for.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130318 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:19:45 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130318 okay, all talk of indian food is banned. i cannot find it here in san francisco, so basically i would not listen to any of the food talk ;-)

]]> By: Baysharam http://gigaom.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130317 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:57:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130317 Wow, next time I’m at Milan Chatwalla’s having the sizzler, I’ll be able to read GigaOm too!

]]> By: Josh http://gigaom.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130316 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:56:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130316 Hasn’t Google done the same thing in Mountain View? I know I’ve connected to it before, but not sure if it’s city-wide…

]]> By: Earthling - EarthLink blog http://gigaom.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130315 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:00:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/earthlink-milpitas/#comment-130315 Wi-Fi Launch And 30 Days Free In Milpitas…

Today we proudly launched our Wi-Fi network in the city of Milpitas, CA…

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