RE: More Mcwireless - Tully's and McDonalds - Cometa $12/month

A quick report on this, a bit off-topic, but I suspect of general interest.

Cometa is the IBM / Intel project.  They are pretty quickly deploying, but
T-Mobile (Starbucks) has the lead.  ATT wireless seems to be the only
billing provider for now, but they say others are coming.  ((There are
Sprint references on the announcements from Cometa))

We have been using the Cometa service for the past week, 4 locations in
Renton.  The quality of service is great (att network here in Seattle, all
ports open, even all Microsoft 137/443 ports for now).  We have had no
trouble getting signal line-of-sight using a decent panel antenna.  We
typically park a block or two away from the McD or Tully's.  Traceroute:

Tracing route to www.washington.edu [140.142.3.7]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     2 ms     2 ms     2 ms  192.168.0.1
  2     4 ms     5 ms     4 ms  12.138.40.89
  3    26 ms    25 ms    25 ms  12.138.44.49
  4    25 ms    26 ms    24 ms  tbr2-p012101.sffca.ip.att.net
[12.123.195.241]
  5    41 ms    41 ms    40 ms  tbr1-cl1.st6wa.ip.att.net [12.122.12.114]
  6    39 ms    39 ms    39 ms  gar1-p360.stwwa.ip.att.net [12.123.203.169]
  7    39 ms    39 ms    39 ms  prs1-wes-ge-0-1-0-0.pnw-gigapop.net
[198.32.170.30]
  8    39 ms    40 ms    39 ms  uwbr2-GE0-0.cac.washington.edu
[198.107.150.52]
  9    40 ms    39 ms    39 ms  zinc-GE-1-1.cac.washington.edu
[140.142.150.10]
 10    40 ms    40 ms    40 ms  www1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.3.7]

Ping:

Pinging 140.142.3.7 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 140.142.3.7: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=55
Reply from 140.142.3.7: bytes=32 time=39ms TTL=55
Reply from 140.142.3.7: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55
Reply from 140.142.3.7: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 140.142.3.7:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 39ms, Maximum = 40ms, Average = 39ms


Here are the locations that are alive:
http://www.wi-fiservice.att.net/loc_WA.html

Press releases say they are also doing another 50 Tully's in NorCal / Oregon
/ Idaho.... so not going to be just limited to Washington.

Right now ATT seems to be offering a Seattle deal for $11.99/month.  That is
a great price for unlimited service.

https://comet.convergentcare.com/comet/ServiceAgreement.do

I tried to sign up today for the $12/month plan and it gets stuck on the
Customer Registration screen.  Hopefully just a problem they are having
today?

  Stephen and Tristan Gutknecht
  full time travelers
  1987 BlueBird Wanderlodge PT40, 8v92



-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Marsh [mailto:dmarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:14 PM
To: talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: More Mcwireless


I was out driving today and kept finding Cometa network hotspots. It looks
like they are now in quite a few McDonalds in the Puget Sound region.
Checkout http://www.mcdwireless.com/locations/MCDw_loc_SEA.html for more
info. It looks like all the hotspots are temporarily configured for free
access, but will require a meal purchase in the future.

-Daniel Marsh

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