Town Tech Update: Downtown Mall Now Has WIFI

Posted by Vanillavy on June 18th, 2009 23 Comments


Yes, hearts rejoice. Not only can you now use your iPhones on the downtown mall, you can also read cVillain without interruption anywhere on the downtown mall. BRI Works, a local ISP with ridiculous customer service is handling all the infrastructure stuff for around $44k a year.

Bricks and WIFI, whats next?

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23 Responses to “Town Tech Update: Downtown Mall Now Has WIFI”

  1. 18 Jun 2009 at 10:30 am
    1 AC said:

    This slightly softens the blow of hearing that 3G is delayed/won’t really have coverage outside of the UVa grounds area.

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    1. 18 Jun 2009 at 10:51 am
      2 echo said:

      How are they going to put in 3G that only covers grounds? Are they going to put a tower in the middle of grounds that only has an extremely limited range? It’d be a lot cheaper to add the new hardware on top of the existing towers.

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      1. 18 Jun 2009 at 10:55 am
        3 AC said:

        I have no idea. I’m just going off of what was said yesterday here:

        https://twitter.com/BHutchinson/status/2209881161

        It doesn’t make much sense but I have no clue where AT&T has towers around here.

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        1. 18 Jun 2009 at 12:26 pm
          4 rhymes with orange said:

          apparently college kids only have use for such a thing.

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  2. 18 Jun 2009 at 10:44 am
    5 Thor said:

    This picture is definitely not a picture of WIFI, nor is it accessible to IPHONES.

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    1. 18 Jun 2009 at 11:54 am
      6 rhymes with orange said:

      yeah great pic

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      1. 18 Jun 2009 at 11:54 am
        7 rhymes with orange said:

        and by that I mean worst ever

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        1. 18 Jun 2009 at 12:06 pm
          8 belmont yo said:

          Amidoinitrite?

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  3. 18 Jun 2009 at 11:31 am
    9 Doug said:

    The Downtown Mall Wi-Fi is definitely accessible via iPhones. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of the testing that was done on coverage and speed tests were performed by a team of testers using iPhones. The Wi-Fi speeds are consistently 1 meg downstream and 1 meg upstream.

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  4. 18 Jun 2009 at 12:13 pm
    10 Thurston said:

    Does this mean all the businesses get free high speed internet as well?

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    1. 18 Jun 2009 at 1:32 pm
      11 Hawkins said:

      Presumably such dickishness would be a violation of the terms of use of the service, which you need to click to agree to before you get connected.

      I haven’t seen the page, but I bet it says something like “no commercial use.”

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      1. 19 Jun 2009 at 10:33 am
        12 Blanco Nino said:

        how is it dickish for businesses to use the free wifi?

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        1. 19 Jun 2009 at 11:10 am
          13 Thurston said:

          I would fucking love to get me some free and unsecured WIFI for my business. Oh wait….

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  5. 18 Jun 2009 at 12:19 pm
    14 tRuckersville said:

    What next…Auntie Anne’s and Orange Julius.

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    1. 18 Jun 2009 at 12:24 pm
      15 rhymes with orange said:

      maybe one of those creepy teddy bear factory shops.

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  6. 18 Jun 2009 at 12:32 pm
    16 tRuckersville said:

    or some kiosks

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    1. 18 Jun 2009 at 2:04 pm
      17 rhymes with orange said:

      piercing pagoda

      Reply
  7. 18 Jun 2009 at 2:37 pm
    18 Hipsterbot said:

    Oversized Sunglasses Hut is the new KayBee Toys

    Reply
  8. 18 Jun 2009 at 2:51 pm
    19 parlie said:

    A TWITTER STORE!

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  9. 18 Jun 2009 at 2:55 pm
    20 Anti-Freeze said:

    I would stay away from that one. Or at least I wouldn’t do any online banking, etc on something as wide open as that.

    Reply
  10. 23 Jun 2009 at 12:00 am
    21 Vicodin? Damn I Thought Those Were Pez! said:

    I utterly love the fact that I get instant Facebook updates whilst sitting in the window of Marco & Lucas shoveling sesame noodles into my craw. It makes for such a delightful afternoon. Thanks, Cville!

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    1. 23 Jun 2009 at 8:24 am
      22 Floozy said:

      Luvs that screenname.

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      1. 23 Jun 2009 at 10:14 pm
        23 Vicodin? Damn I Thought Those Were Pez! said:

        And Philbert loves his Floozy. I just want that damn mutant crab thing to go away. It’s creepy.

        Reply

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