Thread: Wippies: a Fon-like service run by a phone network operator
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2008-06-13 , 00:22
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Your experience show that Wippies and Fon like systems are not really making any good for wifi coverage, because home routers are placed in apartments. Weak transmission power and thick walls and nothing works
So if a Wippies connection is open it should say "Wippies whatever" on the list of connections? And if I can't see any like that then they aren't within range?

I did look up some of the discussion of range on the Wippies forum, and it seemed to vary quite a lot. Some people could get the connection in the middle of the street, while others couldn't even get it in the next room.

Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, maybe in the future this could be done with Wimax routers for better range? But maybe the ISPs wouldn't like that...


Originally Posted by iamthewalrus View Post
Hmm.. 'Wippies' won't go down well in the Netherlands where 'wippie' means 'quickie' in the naughty sense.
Oh dear

That reminds me of an Indian car company called Reva which wanted to introduce its cars to Europe. Reva in Finnish means... erm... something you'd find between your legs (well, some people would).
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