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Warchalking pic: central London
This from Matt Sephton:
"Hi there,
I was just walking down Oxford Street at lunch time and spotted this chalk
which i thought was pretty neat. I only read about all this stuff on Wired
PDA on my way home last night.
I logged on without an ssid, but I'm not quite sure what the speed of the
connection provided by the kiosk is.
These i+ kiosks are popping all over London, I'll have to check which of
the others I've seen have wireless antenna.
bye,
matt"
Posted by matt at July 10, 2002 01:26 AM
Comments
Let me get this straight, there are people putting up free wireless kiosks all over London?
I wish someone would do it here in New York.
Posted by yonah at July 10, 2002 09:59 PM
The )( symbol seems to be pointing 90 degrees away from the direction to the Cityspace i-plus point public internet kiosk.
Did you connect to the street kiosk, or to something else nearby ?
Posted by London 2600 at July 11, 2002 09:56 AM
I'm pretty sure I was connected to the kiosk. There seems to be an antenna of some sort on the top, though it's not in this photo.
Posted by matt at July 11, 2002 03:46 PM
We have been on a recce down Oxford Street, and the SSIDs for Cityspace and Cityspace Wireless are strong signals up and down Oxford Street from this i-plus public internet kiosk.
We plan to put )( stickers on appropriate coffeeshop and public house windows - sitting down in comfort is a better plan than trying to connect on the pavement of one of the busiest shopping streets in the world, with one of the most sophisticated public CCTV surveillance camera systems.
It is noticable just how many Access Points must be interering with each other in this area - all on their default settings and channels !
Posted by London 2600 at July 11, 2002 06:46 PM
what is this 'Cityspace' you keep referring to?
Posted by matt at July 15, 2002 05:32 PM
Anybody has a hint for any open access points close to West Kensington (preferably close to a Pub with a beergarden)?
Thanks
Posted by Johyn at July 16, 2002 08:01 AM
If you are ever out and about in South London, Orpington and Petts Wood way. There are at least 9 without security.
Posted by Wayne at July 17, 2002 09:39 AM
http://www.mmtv.tv/corporate/kiosks.html
http://www.cityspace.com/
Posted by Dan at July 18, 2002 02:57 AM
*sigh* sometimes I think Los Angeles is the most technologically backward "big city" in the world...
that's it, I'm moving to new york or london...
Posted by shaun at July 22, 2002 01:40 AM
Yeah, I found this one using netstumbler. I got 6mbs sitting in the upper level of the starbucks down the street using just the PC card. With an antenna I'm sure you'd get the full 11mbs or close to it. The thing is completely open, and we surfed the web for a bit before my laptop battery died.
I notice this thing has a credit card slot on it. Would that data be sent via wireless as well?
Posted by Op7imus_Prim3 at July 22, 2002 04:39 PM
Went for a wonder down Oxford St yesterday - there are actually 4 of these kiosks between Tottenham Court Rd and Marble Arch & three of them have totally open access points. The only one that doesn't is the Western most one near Selfridges. The others that do are just 1) just west of Oxford Circus, 2) Just outside Borders to the east of Oxford Circus and 3) about 100m west of Tottenham Court road. I got full 11Mbps from all of them when next to the access point and 6Mbps from the latter when sitting in Pret a Manger with a latte! There is another kiosk near on High St Ken near WHSmiths - anyone know if it has an access point? (The ones that do have little metal arials on top)
Posted by Dave at July 24, 2002 02:40 PM
Does anybody know where to find a comprehensive list of hotspots in London ? The consume.net maps are to friggin' weird...
cheers,
Ben
Posted by Ben at July 25, 2002 08:18 AM
Got 11Mbps from the one by Tottenham Court Road yesterday... but download speeds indicated around 128K net connection. Still pretty cool though.
Oh, and Ben, try changing to 'click for node info' on consume.net, then you can get a map from Streetmap to see where the nodes are.
Posted by Adam at July 25, 2002 03:46 PM
There is a CitySpace i+ kiosk in Notting Hill Gate, however that one uses WEP and you cann't use it..
Posted by Mort666 at September 4, 2002 06:13 PM
these kiosks are offering free access to anyone who can use it. the whole of oxford street is covered, using a few AP's and a couple of bridges in between.
theres another one in victoria street, and its possible to sit in the Pret a Manger and get good reliable access from it.
Posted by tom wyatt at October 10, 2002 01:21 PM
I have found out how to crash these little i-points...
All you have to do is go to the "tell the mayor" section, and press the 'refresh' button repeatedly. After a while, there will be several error messages coming up. Just keep pressing refresh, while pressing the 'retry' button on the error windows. After a while of this, a window will appear telling you that windows will shut down in 30 seconds. Wait, and the system will shut down, then reboot in windows 2000 with you as an administrator. Press the start button and have fun>>> :D
Posted by Billy Steiger at November 12, 2002 10:55 AM
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