Where's wifi?Still waiting to use your wireless laptop downtown? Prepare to wait a little longer. The county owns considerable bandwidth stretching from Ringling to Osprey osprey (ŏs`prē), common name for a bird of prey related to the hawk and the New World vulture and found near water in most parts of the world. and plans to allow free access to its Internet capacity by creating a variety of hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. . But there's a problem--new service areas can encroach encroach v. to build a structure which is in whole or in part across the property line of another's real property. This may occur due to incorrect surveys, guesses or miscalculations by builders and/or owners when erecting a building. on business bandwidth providers like Verizon and Comcast. Case in point: Sarasota News and Books patrons sometimes enjoy wireless access, but courtesy of a neighboring business with service. Those concerns combined with access to unauthorized sites delayed the much-ballyhooed opening of Selby Library to wireless access this summer, but service is finally slated to start this month. One day, wireless Internet access See how to access the Internet. will be as common as cell phone service, but not until the economics are worked out. Until then, Sarasota hot-spot hunters are limited to the big retail brands such as Starbucks, Kinko's and Borders. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion