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Old Jan 7, 2007, 05:36 AM   #13
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I believe Google has already been beta testing this. Though the speeds have been a little on the slow side from what I have heard from a few friends that have been using it. The only guarentee that you will get connected at a maximum of 1mb/s. However, the actual speeds are closer to 128kb/s, but hey it is free.(And yes I mean bits not bytes.)

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How is this a good thing? You still have to buy the equipment even if you cannot afford monthly fee... And some have no clue what they need...
It is Wifi, not special equipment needed from what I have heard(this has been in beta testing already). If people can figure out how to connect to the starbuck's wireless I don't think they will have a problem with this.

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How are they going to show the ads?
My guess would be that they will bring up a page when you first connect to it, sort of how a lot of airports and hotels do it.
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