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Wi-Fi booster for urban dwellers

Wi-Fi booster for urban dwellers

November 29, 2014 | Comments Off on Wi-Fi booster for urban dwellers

Gigaom     Nov. 11, 2014 – 9:05 AM PST

Wireless startup Mimosa has been plugging Wi-Fi into a lot of networking products lately. It first injected Wi-Fi into transport networks by offering a backhaul radio to ISPs. It quickly turned to access networks, proffering up gear that replace the cable or copper line entering your home with a Wi-Fi link. Now it’s offering up its first consumer-facing product: A Wi-Fi router you actually install in your home.

Mimosa wouldn’t be Mimosa if it were just selling any off-the-shelf wireless router. Its C5i doesn’t have an ingress port connecting to your broadband modem. Instead, it pulls its internet connection directly from the airwaves. Specifically, it’s tapping outdoor Wi-Fi networks to deliver you an indoor Wi-Fi connection, sticking with its philosophy that Wi-Fi can be used to handle the broadband link from the network core all the way to the device.

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Comcast is Turning Modems into Hotspots

Comcast is Turning Modems into Hotspots

June 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Comcast is Turning Modems into Hotspots

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If you’re a Comcast cable customer, your home’s private Wi-Fi router is being turned into a public hotspot. It’s potentially creepy and annoying. But the upside is Internet everywhere.

It’s been one year since Comcast (CMCSA) started its monster project to blanket residential and commercial areas with continuous Wi-Fi coverage. Imagine waves of wireless Internet emitting from every home, business and public waiting area.

Comcast has been swapping out customers’ old routers with new ones capable of doubling as public hotspots. So far, the company has turned 3 million home devices into public ones. By year’s end it plans to activate that feature on the other 5 million already installed.

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Amtrack to Get WiFi in Michigan

Amtrack to Get WiFi in Michigan

September 14, 2013 | Comments Off on Amtrack to Get WiFi in Michigan

Thursday, August 29, 2013
LANSING – Rail passengers in Michigan will be the first in the Midwest to have access to a new cellular-connect WiFi service on Amtrak trains beginning in early 2014.The service is part of a contract approved by the Transportation Commission, and which will invest $1 million in the trains. An expected increase in ridership should help offset the cost through increased ticket revenues, officials said.Ridership on Michigan’s Amtrak trains, which connect a number of cities with Chicago, has been on the upswing in recent years, in part because of increasing fuel prices. A record 793,000 passengers traveled on Amtrak trains in Michigan in 2012.WiFi availability is a growing service on other travel systems, such as airlines.

The service will be through the Amtrak Connect, which could provide service to up to 50 percent of the passengers on a train. Already some 75 percent of Amtrak passengers can get service through the Enjoy the Ride service.

There will be some restrictions to ensure accessibility is not affected for other passengers. Video streaming, music downloads and other files larger than 10 megabytes will be prohibited, officials said.

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Michigan Amtrack to Offer WiFi

Michigan Amtrack to Offer WiFi

September 1, 2013 | Comments Off on Michigan Amtrack to Offer WiFi

LANSING – Rail passengers in Michigan will be the first in the Midwest to have access to a new cellular-connect WiFi service on Amtrak trains beginning in early 2014.

The service is part of a contract approved by the Transportation Commission, and which will invest $1 million in the trains. An expected increase in ridership should help offset the cost through increased ticket revenues, officials said.

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