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Wifi in libraries
January 29th, 2004
Wi-FI Networking News, purveyors of fine wifi-related news to geeks everywhere, brings news of moves afoot to install wifi in public libraries.
Damn fine idea, if you ask me - while PCs in libraries are a great idea that’s sated my craving for broadband in the past, there’s never enough of them. York’s City library is a case in point - I don’t think I’ve ever been in there and seen a PC free.
Even better would be if rural libraries could then be used as base stations for local community wifi networks - if they’re connected to the Net for UK Online access (or whatever it’s called these days) that implies that there’s a Kilostream or something similar running into the premises. Share that around the community, and bingo, you’ve got widespread broadband availability.
The trouble is that bureaucracy will get in the way - the last attempt to get a wider use for a library connection that I’m aware of failed because “public services couldn’t be seen to be subsidising services for private individuals”. They giveth with one hand, and taketh away with the other…
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