Researchers Test WiFi Access From Moving Vehicles 155
Julie188 writes "Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Massachusetts have been working on a technology that would let mobile phones and other 3G devices automatically switch to public WiFi even while the device is traveling in a vehicle. The technology is dubbed Wiffler and earlier this year its creators took it for a test drive with some interesting results. Although the researchers determined that a reliable public WiFi hotspot would be available to their test vehicles only 11% of the time, the Wiffler protocol was able to offload almost 50% of the data from 3G to WiFi."
Re:Define "Public" (Score:4, Informative)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6960304.stm [bbc.co.uk]
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070116/115327.shtml [techdirt.com]
Cohda (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Define "Public" (Score:2, Informative)
Assuming 30 days in a month that 250GB limit would be reached with a consistent throughput of just over 100 KBps. If you can't push that over your wireless connection then you have something seriously wrong in your network setup.
Host Information Protocol (HIP) (Score:3, Informative)
Previous Research (Score:2, Informative)