Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi

Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by ojm on Friday August 26, 2016 @05:02AM (#12365067)

Or we cannot get better access. I'm in Melbourne suburbs and can only get shocking ADSL1.

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Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by ragix on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:55AM (#12366237)

I love NZ ;). I'm on 200/200mbit fibre and I heard a rumor my city is going to be come a giga-city soon. Bring on 1gbps internet at home!

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Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by yitchelle on Friday August 26, 2016 @10:17AM (#12366413)

I always wonder why the home needs such high bandwidth. What are using all that bandwidth for?

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Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by kalleboo on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:01AM (#12366726)

For me it's about being able to ignore the lack of QoS. My wife is streaming an HD movie, our 3 iDevices start downloading some new update that just came out, I'm on Skype and doing research, it's all completely seamless, everything blows ahead at full speed.

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Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by yitchelle on Friday August 26, 2016 @12:54PM (#12367532)

Oh I see, even if the link quality is crap. You have the high enough bandwidth to recover.

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