[Leaplist] Cyberspot - St. Cloud's free high speed muni Wi-fi

[Andrew]

On Nov 16, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Vernon Singleton wrote:

> Have any of you folks who live in St. Cloud had much success using
> their free wi-fi?
>
> http://www.stcloud.org/index.asp?NID=402
>
> Their coverage looks pretty good:
> http://www.stcloud.org/documents/Cyber%20Spot/Cyber%20Spot%20FAQ_1.pdf
>
> What kind of d/l speeds have you been getting?

I use it from time to time.   About a year ago, they had some serious  
DNS stability problems, but I have not used it enough recently to  
know if they've been resolved or not.  The speed has improved, from  
maybe 300-500Kb/s up to a pretty respectable 2000-3000Kb/s when I  
tested it a few weeks back (could be a time of day thing as well, I  
have not tested it extensively).  The link to the internet is through  
Sprint, so they have decent quality of connectivity.  You get private  
IP addresses, so you cannot run any servers on the wireless link, but  
that's not an issue for most people.