Free wifi live in central Tuggeranong ... will you use it?

JC said :

dungfungus said :

JC said :

dungfungus said :

gooterz said :

In theory I could use a few hundred gig on it. I couldn’t do that on mobile.
As well as many people don’t actually have mobile broadband just regular phone plans due to the lack of needing them. Getting access for those people means they can try broadband on the go.
Say your mobile credit runs out you can still send an email or whatever.
Most laptops don’t have broadband. Saves you from tethering them.

Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots.

Would be awesome to see city wide data services. Say like traffic accidents, weather, events, bus services etc.

“Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots………”
Yes, the headline is totally misleading.
The actual coverage geographically is about 1% of Tuggeranong.

Aren’t your posts about the Gungahlin Light Rail also equally misleading? Afterall it will only service 4 suburbs out of the dozen so in Gungahlin! Just sayin…

I have never heard of the “Gungahlin Light Rail”.
If you are referring to what was once called Capital Metro it is now called “Tccs Light Rail Project” and it describes the proposed service as “City to Gungahlin”.
And if you claim it will only serve 4 suburbs in Gungahlin it will be a bigger failure than anticipated.

You are the one always carrying on about Gungahlin and the North, when as I pointed out it is just 4 suburbs and a few streets. Of high density housing of course.

I think we both mean to be referring to the areas known as the “town centres” in both Tuggers and Gungahlin and not the whole geographical areas that don’t get the service, OK?

For me, there’s not a lot of benefit – I have good connections at home and work, and my phone plan includes ample data.

If I was on a limited income (like when I was when I was younger), travelling or unable to connect at home (which we couldn’t at our old house through lack of ports at the exchange), though, this would be brilliant.

DragonRyda said :

I sat at the Brew Bar yesterday and logged into it. It seemed a bit slow to get going, but was then fine for emails etc. Although right at the Hyperdome doorstep, I could never log on to their wifi, and the few times i did manage it it never seemed to work properly.

Yeah well the Government one is using outdoor access points that are reasonably high powered and the interference levels will be low. Inside malls and the like there are more access points but lower power to help minimise interference.

With WiFi there are only 3 channels on 2.4Ghz, which is the frequency the gov ones will probably be working on. On 5Ghz a few more channels, but 5Ghz doesn’t propagate nearly as far as 2.4, especially through buildings.

dungfungus said :

JC said :

dungfungus said :

gooterz said :

In theory I could use a few hundred gig on it. I couldn’t do that on mobile.
As well as many people don’t actually have mobile broadband just regular phone plans due to the lack of needing them. Getting access for those people means they can try broadband on the go.
Say your mobile credit runs out you can still send an email or whatever.
Most laptops don’t have broadband. Saves you from tethering them.

Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots.

Would be awesome to see city wide data services. Say like traffic accidents, weather, events, bus services etc.

“Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots………”
Yes, the headline is totally misleading.
The actual coverage geographically is about 1% of Tuggeranong.

Aren’t your posts about the Gungahlin Light Rail also equally misleading? Afterall it will only service 4 suburbs out of the dozen so in Gungahlin! Just sayin…

I have never heard of the “Gungahlin Light Rail”.
If you are referring to what was once called Capital Metro it is now called “Tccs Light Rail Project” and it describes the proposed service as “City to Gungahlin”.
And if you claim it will only serve 4 suburbs in Gungahlin it will be a bigger failure than anticipated.

You are the one always carrying on about Gungahlin and the North, when as I pointed out it is just 4 suburbs and a few streets. Of high density housing of course.

I sat at the Brew Bar yesterday and logged into it. It seemed a bit slow to get going, but was then fine for emails etc. Although right at the Hyperdome doorstep, I could never log on to their wifi, and the few times i did manage it it never seemed to work properly.

JC said :

dungfungus said :

gooterz said :

In theory I could use a few hundred gig on it. I couldn’t do that on mobile.
As well as many people don’t actually have mobile broadband just regular phone plans due to the lack of needing them. Getting access for those people means they can try broadband on the go.
Say your mobile credit runs out you can still send an email or whatever.
Most laptops don’t have broadband. Saves you from tethering them.

Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots.

Would be awesome to see city wide data services. Say like traffic accidents, weather, events, bus services etc.

“Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots………”
Yes, the headline is totally misleading.
The actual coverage geographically is about 1% of Tuggeranong.

Aren’t your posts about the Gungahlin Light Rail also equally misleading? Afterall it will only service 4 suburbs out of the dozen so in Gungahlin! Just sayin…

I have never heard of the “Gungahlin Light Rail”.
If you are referring to what was once called Capital Metro it is now called “Tccs Light Rail Project” and it describes the proposed service as “City to Gungahlin”.
And if you claim it will only serve 4 suburbs in Gungahlin it will be a bigger failure than anticipated.

dungfungus said :

gooterz said :

In theory I could use a few hundred gig on it. I couldn’t do that on mobile.
As well as many people don’t actually have mobile broadband just regular phone plans due to the lack of needing them. Getting access for those people means they can try broadband on the go.
Say your mobile credit runs out you can still send an email or whatever.
Most laptops don’t have broadband. Saves you from tethering them.

Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots.

Would be awesome to see city wide data services. Say like traffic accidents, weather, events, bus services etc.

“Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots………”
Yes, the headline is totally misleading.
The actual coverage geographically is about 1% of Tuggeranong.

Aren’t your posts about the Gungahlin Light Rail also equally misleading? Afterall it will only service 4 suburbs out of the dozen so in Gungahlin! Just sayin…

Considering big parts of Tuggeranong are ranked as having the slowest Internet in the entire country, you gotta take what you can get. Might encourage a few residents to visit the Hyperdome for some Internet reasonable coverage.

http://citynews.com.au/2015/brodtmann-savages-nbn-rollout-plans/

dungfungus said :

gooterz said :

In theory I could use a few hundred gig on it. I couldn’t do that on mobile.
As well as many people don’t actually have mobile broadband just regular phone plans due to the lack of needing them. Getting access for those people means they can try broadband on the go.
Say your mobile credit runs out you can still send an email or whatever.
Most laptops don’t have broadband. Saves you from tethering them.

Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots.

Would be awesome to see city wide data services. Say like traffic accidents, weather, events, bus services etc.

“Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots………”
Yes, the headline is totally misleading.
The actual coverage geographically is about 1% of Tuggeranong.

Thanks for pointing that out, I have added the word “central” in before Tuggeranong in the headline.

gooterz said :

In theory I could use a few hundred gig on it. I couldn’t do that on mobile.
As well as many people don’t actually have mobile broadband just regular phone plans due to the lack of needing them. Getting access for those people means they can try broadband on the go.
Say your mobile credit runs out you can still send an email or whatever.
Most laptops don’t have broadband. Saves you from tethering them.

Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots.

Would be awesome to see city wide data services. Say like traffic accidents, weather, events, bus services etc.

“Still needs to be everywhere not just one or two hotspots………”
Yes, the headline is totally misleading.
The actual coverage geographically is about 1% of Tuggeranong.