ttiiggy
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| Ohio to Offer Free Internet to All Residents
So now it is a year later. Anything to show?
How did they ever intend for this to work?
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published Jul 30, 2007
»www.associatedcontent.com/articl···l?cat=15
According to a ohio.gov press release, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has signed an order that will establish the Ohio Broadband Council and the Broadband Ohio Network. Both will help expand access to the state's broadband internet network.
The Ohio Broadband Coucil will help extend the Broadband Ohio Network to every single county in the state of Ohio. This will allow all public and private parties to use Ohio's broadband internet, especially in the state where many people do not have access to affordable high speed internet.
Governor Strickland said of signing the order, "Ohio's economic future relies on our ability to compete in a high-speed, high-tech global marketplace...the Ohio Broadband Council will partner with the public and private sectors to help make sure that every Ohioan has viable access to affordable, high-speed internet service, regardless of where they live, work or learn."
The executive order directs state agencies to use Ohio's official broadband network. Currently many institutions throughout the state use public and private networks to access the internet. This is both inefficient and pricey.
Governor Strickland also said, "by fully utilizing our state broadband network we will be making efficient, responsible use of our public dollars."
The state is hoping that those in both urban and rural areas will use the free broadband high-speed internet offered by the government. The official press release also said that the Ohio Broadband Council is working hard to gain federal support in broadband investments.
The Ohio Broadband Council will allow the Broadband Ohio Network to reach out to all of the state's 88 counties. Even in rural towns, people will be able to access the internet at the nearest connection point on the state's broadband network. The state hopes that this will no longer divide Ohio's rural and urban areas, but unite them and keep them updated when it comes to technology. |
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Hall
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Dayton, OH | Who will pay for this ?  |
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Warzau
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| said by Hall  :Who will pay for this ? Ohio |
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RonS
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| said by Warzau :said by Hall :Who will pay for this ? Ohio I already pay for internet. Why do I want to pay for someone else's as well?
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CylonRed
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This is a big of a joke as individual cities trying to do free WiFi internet. There is a LOT of black fiber thanks to universities and I think Wright Patt.
A couple of years ago there was talk of connecting ALL of the county courts to e fiber network that used the dark fiber. Every night the courts would upload their cases and motions to a massive db in Columbus. This would allow any lawyer in the state to file papers outside of the county they do work in.
Processors and the general public would be able to also log in and see the public information. Don't think that went any where either...
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Hall
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| said by CylonRed :This is a big of a joke as individual cities trying to do free WiFi internet. Dayton has it slowly going into place at no cost to the city nor to the taxpayers. It's all ad-funded through Harborlink.net, who does this all over the country for cities and businesses. |
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CylonRed
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Bloom County | It would be one of the few that *may* workout.... Most fail and fail hard - just look at the news on DSLR about the Portland WiFi... |
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Hall
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| Could be why Harborlink is moving so slow... I really don't understand the point of free wi-fi in a setup like this unless it's kept in "public" areas. Putting wireless transmitters on my street would be a waste as they say it's not intended for people to use from inside their homes (I know it can certainly reach in). There's not exactly people sitting around with laptops and PDAs needing 'net access. Downtown ? Different story... |
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RonS
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| said by Hall : There's not exactly people sitting around with laptops and PDAs needing 'net access. Downtown ? Different story... I do. I work downtown but not in an office. I go to different offices to fix their Copiers. There are a few good spots downtown to get a signal for Harborlink. One of them is East end of Mendelsons parking lot. Most other places are hit and miss. I am also amazed at the number of wide open wireless routes in Downtown Dayton.
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Hall
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| I meant there's little need for wireless internet out in the neighborhoods. I can understand having it downtown.
We saw the open routers when my wife first got her laptop driving from the Smithville exit on 35 to 75 and then north on 75. She couldn't keep track of them in the "list" of wireless access points. I had it sorted with "open" ones at the top too and it filled the screen so she'd have had to scroll to see them all. |
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RonS
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| What is surprising to me is when I tell one of my customers they have an open wireless router they don't care. I find that rather odd.
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accounting
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said by RonS :said by Warzau :said by Hall :Who will pay for this ? Ohio I already pay for internet. Why do I want to pay for someone else's as well? Good point! I agree. |
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EGeezer
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August 23rd, @05:28PM
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Re: Ohio Broadband initiative
here is the web site for the program. It appears to have at least nominal support from ISPs and other technology and infrastructure companies. The project looks interesting and I hope it doesn't get bogged down in bureaucracy and vendor positioning shenanigans.
I can appreciate the economic and development value of areas having access to commercial quality electric grid, natural gas, water, sewage, voice and data connectivity. Internet access has become almost a necessity for business. It's no longer just email and a web site (which can be hosted anywhere). Companies need collaboration, remote access to company networks, electronic data exchange with vendors and customers, conferencing, VoIP and so on. Having sufficient bandwidth for these things allows companies to be able to locate in areas they could not have previously considered, and allows employees to telecommute where that wouldn't be possible otherwise.
So far, Strickland has seemed to be reasonably sane in his tenure as governor, and I suspect that this will depend heavily on private sector funding and cooperation.
EDIT - I was an early user of GCFN and used an old Wyse 50 ASCII terminal and an acoustic modem. It was all I could afford  Before that, my only connection was at Ohio U. in the '70s when we used an IBM 3101 and modem to dial into a POP at Lewis in Cleveland.
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BurntCricket
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Re: Ohio to Offer Free Internet to All Residents
There are millions of miles(collectively speaking) of unused fiber placed during the buildup in the nineties, the "last mile" became cost prohibitive and it died, if it was built out every house could have a fiber running to it and get all their communication services through it.
Anyone get a few trillion they can spare with little hope of recovery much less profit?
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