[NBLUG/talk] Sebastopol Downtown WiFi

[Christopher Wagner]

I must admit, I'm curious as to what the cons would be for having Sonic
set-up downtown WiFi?  Yes, the city is tacitly "approving" of Sonic.net
(a local business).  Are they the tinfoil hat types?  What's their gripe?

Also on a related note, I've never been able to get a functional set-up
going so that I, as a paying Sonic.net user, have unrestricted
functionality on the net.  The Cisco VPN client is a bear to set-up, or
at least my attempts so far have encountered this.  I run Ubuntu 7.10. 
To be far, I haven't tried any time recently, but any general thoughts
or suggestions on that topic?

- Chris

Robert P. Thille wrote:
> Hi local geeks,
>
> I've heard that there are some "concerned citizens" who are trying to  
> stop Sonic.net from deploying their free WiFi in the Sebastopol  
> downtown core.  The deployment was approved back in November: http:// 
> www.ci.sebastopol.ca.us/pdfs/citycouncil/11-20-07CCMinutes.pdf
>
> However, it may be that if enough "concerned citizens" turn out  
> against it at the City Council Meeting on the 18th, they will rescind  
> the approval.
>
> If you support sonic.net being allowed to use city light polls to  
> deploy free WiFi in the downtown Sebastopol core, please turn out at  
> the March 18th, 2008 City Council meeting and speak in support.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert Thille
>
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