Free wireless in Freo!
Well, I’m glad I go to university in Fremantle — Graeme Sutherland has set up a free wireless internet connection over the Cappucino Strip:
Barking Owl (my company) and Fremantle Technology have got together to create a really usable free WiFi service covering a good part of the cafe strip on South Terrace roughly from Gino’s Cafe to the Capri Restaurant, including Marconi’s, the Dome, Kulcha, etc. Coverage is best at tables outside but is quite usable indoors on the south/west side of the strip.
The service has a series of limits (traffic, bandwidth shaping, some blocked ports) to prevent big downloading and spamming.
Not enough to frustrate or annoy an email or web user, though, who will enjoy ADSL-like performance while sipping coffee of having a meal. As the service is in test at the moment, things may change, but basically it is there to be tested and enjoyed by the laptop and PDA carrying public in Fremantle.
We’ve invested some time and dollars to get things started, and we hope to raise sponsorship to extend and improve the service here in Fremantle.
Since I’ll be back at uni for the next week or so, I’ll have an opportunity to test it out.
Cheers, Graeme!
I can’t wait for semester to start, coffee and the internet, it doesn’t get better than that!
MK