[wsfii-discuss] After Katrina - Firewireless in California

Wed Oct 24 02:09:51 UTC 2007

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/173851649/article.pl

"Retired journalist and mobility expert Jim Forbes is among the quarter-million San Diego-area residents driven out of their homes by the horrific wildfires. Forbes has taken the opportunity to 'fire blog' from his shelter and discuss via e-mail with Network World how his personal technology and the shelter's wireless networks are holding up under the strain. 'The shelter set up a dedicated computer room with an 802.11 a,b, and g network which worked like a charm. Lots of people brought notebooks when they left their home, so there was a whole lot of IM traffic in and out of the shelter. The local cell networks were subsumed by traffic early in the day so people were texting friends and loved ones a lot."

Vickram
http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com

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