[Ti] OT: politics and Wi-Fi Help needed, please

[Yuta]

You can always do a search on wi-fi on Google or Dogpile, but here are 
2 links to get you started.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Wi_Fi.html
http://www.wi-fi.org

Good luck!
Cheers,
Yuta

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 04:00  AM, F. Mortes wrote:

> Hi, everyone!
>
> I need some help from the list and please forgive this off-topic 
> posting.
>
> I live in a small village next to a National Park, here in Catalonia. 
> Because of the nature of our location, zoning and planning schemes 
> forbid any kind of industrial activity. Over the last 20 years, more 
> and more families have moved into our village, attracted by the peace 
> and quiet and the beauty of the area.
>
> Problem: because there are few businesses in the area, our Council 
> does not raise much money from taxation. If we do not attract more 
> 'clean' professional-types who move or set up their offices in the 
> village (surgeries, legal firms, architects, catering compannies, 
> etc), in the future we will not be able to provide reasonably good 
> public services for everyone.
>
> Broad band access to the internet would very much be an incentive for 
> such businesses to move to our village. Currently, DSL providers offer 
> very poor services in our area because we are too far from the nearest 
> 'node' (or whatever the term is). Wi-Fi looks like an option. The 
> trouble is that this is still in its infancy here and nobody seems to 
> know very much about it. I've been asked to attend a meeting tonight 
> between our mayor and a young, local start-up Wi-Fi provider, simply 
> because I've heard the word "Wi-Fi" mentioned before, not because I 
> know much about it!
>
> Question:
>
> What sort of questions should we ask them? For example, I seem to have 
> heard that different standards (identified by a string of numbers and 
> letters) exist. Should we be concerned about this? We are worried that 
> we might make a mistake we would regret.
> Could anyone point me to a web page, like, "Wi-Fi for dummies"?
>
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Francesc
>
>
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