[1st-mile-nm] Santa Fe Plaza Free WiFi

Fri Jan 24 10:18:55 PST 2020

Indeed. this is kind of a strange and meaningless statement:

The system provides 1 gigabyte of internet service with a speed of 10
> megabytes per second and a capacity of 1,000 users at once, said Stephen
> Resnick, who chairs the chamber’s broadband working group and is the
> owner of Capitol Computer & Network Solutions.

“If you can get 5 megabytes when you are out and about, that’s great to
> find restaurants, galleries, take a video and upload it to the cloud,”
> Resnick said. “Really, 5 [megabytes] is a good minimum.”

What they probably mean is that there is a 1Gbps feed, each user is capped
at 10Mbps, and that 5Mbps is "a good minimum" to do stuff.

Of course, the way the article is written, it is not obvious ;)

-Michael

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:56 AM John Brown <john at citylinkfiber.com> wrote:

> Hi,   It would be good to make sure the units of measurement are accurate.
>
> 1 GigaBYTE of service seems unlikely.
> They probably mean  1GigaBIT.
>
> But then they could be doing 1GigaBYTE is the maximum number of bytes they
> will
> allow to be transferred, which is hardly anything.   Sending a couple
> dozen photos
> could consume that.
>
> By making sure we quote and report accurate units of measurement it
> will help make accurate
> comparisons between other communities, and will help policy people
> with accurate info as well.
>
> Would you want 100cents or 100dollars ??   100 is just 100
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:49 AM Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Free Wi-Fi available on Santa Fe's Plaza
> >
> > By Teya Vitu    tvitu at sfnewmexican.com   Jan 23, 2020
> >
> >
> https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/free-wi-fi-available-on-santa-fe-s-plaza/article_25b1835a-3d40-11ea-85b3-1febccff8d79.html
> >
> > The city of Santa Fe has quietly gone live with free Wi-Fi service on
> > the Plaza.
> >
> > The project, part of a wider effort by the Santa Fe Chamber of
> > Commerce’s broadband working group to improve internet access across
> > Santa Fe County, can be found at “SF Plaza Free WiFi.” Neither the city
> > nor the chamber has publicly announced the service, but the system has
> > been tested, with 7,704 unique users since April.
> >
> > Local internet service provider Cyber Mesa contracted with the city to
> > install and manage the system, which is fed by fiber-optic internet
> > service and includes four wireless access points — point-to-point
> > internet backhaul radios on the roofs of the Market Station building at
> > the Railyard, where some city offices are located, and another downtown
> > building.
> >
> > The system provides 1 gigabyte of internet service with a speed of 10
> > megabytes per second and a capacity of 1,000 users at once, said Stephen
> > Resnick, who chairs the chamber’s broadband working group and is the
> > owner of Capitol Computer & Network Solutions.
> >
> > “If you can get 5 megabytes when you are out and about, that’s great to
> > find restaurants, galleries, take a video and upload it to the cloud,”
> > Resnick said. “Really, 5 [megabytes] is a good minimum.”
> >
> > The working group for the past year or two has been trying to find ways
> > to improve internet service across the county through free Wi-Fi,
> > improved broadband and, in some rural areas, new broadband internet
> > service.
> >
> > The free Plaza Wi-Fi service is the group’s first completed project,
> > funded with $18,859 from Tourism Santa Fe, the city’s convention and
> > visitors bureau. The cost to maintain the service is about $800 per
> > month, said Randy Randall, Tourism Santa Fe’s executive director.
> >
> > “We wanted the Plaza to be a proof of concept,” Resnick said.
> >
> > The broadband working group is composed of representatives from the city
> > and Santa Fe County economic development departments, Santa Fe Public
> > Schools and the Regional Economic Development Initiative Network, better
> > known as REDI Net. The Northern New Mexico network is governed by three
> > counties, one city, four pueblos and the North Central New Mexico
> > Economic Development District.
> >
> > “We do plan to expand [free Wi-Fi] from the Plaza,” said Chris Hyer, the
> > county’s economic development manager and a working group member.
> >
> > Justin Greene, founder of Dashing Delivery and the Tesuque Pueblo
> > representative at REDI Net, said the group could easily expand service
> > to the Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion and Railyard Park from the
> > Market Station building.
> >
> > In coming weeks, he said, window stickers will be made available to
> > downtown businesses to bring awareness about the Plaza Wi-Fi service.
> >
> > Free Wi-Fi also could come to Santa Fe neighborhoods through the school
> > district, which so far has installed fiber-optic cable at 25 locations
> > where wireless access points could be installed.
> >
> > “It’s possible we can get a few [wireless access points] up by the end
> > of the year, ” said Patricia Nordby, director of technology at Santa Fe
> > Public Schools.
> >
> > Free wireless internet access emerged in the 2000s, and service provided
> > by local governments has since become commonplace across the country and
> > around the world.
> >
> > The city of Albuquerque has been offering free Wi-Fi at various
> > facilities since 2006. Las Cruces just launched free Wi-Fi on Sept. 12,
> > and the Los Alamos Network internet service provider has provided free
> > Wi-Fi at various downtown locations for about three years.
> >
> > “Where there is good internet service available, you can do free Wi-Fi,”
> > Resnick said.
> >
> > Santa Fe County wants to establish a network of point-to-point internet
> > connections across the county, but broadband service must be improved or
> > established in rural areas before that can happen, Hyer said.
> >
> > The key is finding funding sources for these projects, such as Tourism
> > Santa Fe for the Plaza Wi-Fi project.
> >
> > The broadband working group sees potential for collaboration.
> >
> > “We want to interconnect city, county and school fiber optic systems and
> > provide redundancies and extend the reach of broadband access across the
> > county,” Greene said.
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director
> > 1st-Mile Institute     505-603-5200
> > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504,
> > rl at 1st-mile.org     www.1st-mile.org
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