Strange looking cylinders
USI Wireless is starting to infiltrate my Minneapolis neighborhood, putting up their strange-looking (and ugly) wireless transmitters under the streetlights on my block. Anyone using their service yet, or planning to? I’m loving the “free” Internet at my local coffee shops and libraries, but this could free me up to starting working anywhere at a cost I could take ($20/month versus $60-something for wireless PC cards)
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Where are you living?
I’m really glad that they are more “discrete” that the ugly white boxes all over SLP.
I tried it from the Nomad Pub last week and I was pretty happy with the connectivity despite the low signal. Looking forward to it coming to my neighborhood. I’ve actually had issues with the wireless in some coffee shops I’d like to be working in. Maybe I should try and get that OS upgrade on my MacBook.
I have had it in Cooper for a while, but don’t consider it a viable alternative to cable.
I’ve used it. My wife signed up a few months back.
In some locations, it worked fine. In others, the signal was so weak as to be unusable. By “locations”, I mean various spots over Minneapolis’ downtown area, and in the Warehouse district.
We just canceled the subscription. Wifi everywhere is very attractive, but for any sort of monthly subscription, it needs to be more reliable.
I’m that greater reliability is what USI is aiming at, but in my experience, it’s just not there yet