WiFi Strikes the Cooper Neighborhood of Minneapolis

7 thoughts on “WiFi Strikes the Cooper Neighborhood of Minneapolis”

1. As for WiFi in Minneapolis, I prefer Banananame as it’s stronger and more secure.

2. Are you guys going to use the city wireless? I want to try it, but I’m not sure if I really need it, since I don’t think I’d use it to replace my home line.

   If I can use the Mpls service at my parents place in Richfield, then that might make me sign up.

3. I’ll probably stick with Comcast. I have more faith in a wire reaching my home with fast and reliable Internet access over WiFi. I can’t imagine their is much redundancy in the mesh at this point, so if one antenna went down I’d probably be screwed.

4. The connection to your home once the network is up and running should be very fast, and will be completely redundant

5. I see you have your home system security enabled so that your neighbors can’t share. I would have expected you to open up the WiFi so that all could enjoy your excess bandwidth!

6. Good point, Nathan. I secured it as an experiment to find out if it made a difference in performance. However, I don’t think my neighbors are technical enough to poach WiFi, so it hasn’t helped. If you’re in the neighborhood, the password is “thedeets”

   Joe, here is what concerns me. I imagine the WiFi I’m picking up at my house is primarily from an antenna at 32nd St E & 46th Ave S. If that particular antenna was to go down, would I be offline, seeing slower performance, or what?

7. i heard from a friend that MPLS wireless would be hitting the stevens community the beginning of february. i live just a block from the franklin/nicollete and have no signal yet. can anyone offer any news on the progress? i’ve tried to find maps and information, but according to these i should already have a signal!?