Please post your Pioneer Courtouse Square test results here! --MichaelCodanti
Date: 1/3/2002 @ 6:30pmBR Report from MichaelCodantiBR Signal: Pretty darn goodBR Coverage: Pretty much everywhere (including Starbucks)BR Test Equipment: old Toshiba laptop with a Toshiba WiFi card (Lucent) w/internal antennaBR Speed: ExcellentBR BR Date: 1/4/2002 @ 6:57pmBR Report from AndrewWoods: I'm currently chilling in the Starbucks in the square, getting a good signal, around 22db SNR. i'm using an unmodified lucent silver card. it covers most of the square very well. it's 6:57pm at the moment. it dies inside powell's around 4 steps past the door, which is to be expected, as it is sunken in brick. haven't gotten any questions yet, but a lot of weird looks. thanks a lot, guys! i will be spending a lot of time downtown, now. haha. (note: i'm using win2k, and mozilla (0.9.7) wouldn't pull up the nocatauth page, but IE 5.00.2920 pulled it up no problemo. very cool.) Update 01/12/02: I'm currently updating my debian installation to unstable, again from the Starbucks (it's cold outside). I'm getting around 85-90kBps. I had no trouble getting connected. The only difficulty I've had so far is a more general linux problem; for some reason, it doesn't like to use the DNS address provided by DHCP, unless the DNS server's ip is globally resolvable, i.e. not the gateway. So, if you're having connection problems in linux, but you can ping internet IPs, try adding a known nameserver IP to resolv.conf.BR BR Date: 1/17/2002 @ 2:26pmBR Report from DonPark: yes! Im writing this from pioner courthouse square. im using my thinkpad with linux and an orinoco bronze card (old firmware). i inserted the card, ran 'pump' to get an address and ran 'links yahoo.com'. the portal caught it and i hit submit. then it sent me on to yahoo - although yahoo complained about a weird URL. i think nocat may be mungeing the URL slightly. Im just about out of batt. power.BR BR Date: 1/17/2002 @ 4:26pmBR Report from PeterBakke: hello, this is being mailed from the p.c. square starbucks, and i happen to be running macos x. it appears to be working flawlessly ... airport reports a nearly full strength signal, and authnocat caught my web browser on the first attempt. this system is a dual-usb ibook, with a new airport card, and macos x 10.1BR BR Date: 1/17/2002 @ 4:52pmBR Report from GaryWeaverLi: Hope I am sending this report correctly. I tried last night and had only DHCP and DNS but no traffic. Adam made the update and like everyone else -- now everything ROCKS!! It's sooo fast. One internet throughput test reported 763Kb!! Wow. Of course the second test came back at 1856Kb!!! I love cache... Great job guys.BR BR Date: 1/18/2002 @ 5:08pmBR Report from EliabHelon: all is good i initially had problems obtaining an address but after trying again i got a lease no problem. I think the connection here is most adequately described as kickass speed, averaging 1100k throughput.I'm using a vanilla silver lucent card on my openbsd laptop. Opera had a problem following the nocat redirect to my originally requested page, but everything else is smooth. BR Date: 1/20/2002 @ 6:30pmBR Here I sit at the PS Starbucks, with two boxes:
* Stylistic 1000, Win98 first edition, Orinoco Silver card, 5Dbi external antenna, latest firmware/drivers, IE 5.5
*266MHz laptop, Win2K, Orinoco Silver card, 5Dbi external antenna, latest firmware/drivers, IE 5.5, Netwcape 4.79 BR Yeah, yeah, I know... bring a Linux client. All in due time, there are only so many hours... 8^)= BR In general, everything is great. The laptop didn't seem to correctly get the DNS servers the first time it hit the DHCP server, but after I dropped the connection and reconnected to renew the lease, everything is fine. Both machines got the NoCatAuth splash page as expected. It's nice and fast, and I have excellent signal levels. If I disconnect the external anntennas, I drop down to about a 12Db SNR, but it's still usable. BR Cheers to the crew putting this together!! - AlHooton