Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi

Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by rurban on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:30AM (#12365706)

Austria is far more mountainous than Italy. But what doesn't add up is that only the bigger cities there have proper LTE coverage, the small towns only G3 or G2. But even G3 would be better than the WiFi on broken 2Mb copper cables in the earth.

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Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by delcaran on Sunday August 28, 2016 @08:40AM (#12376260)

Nope, not in Italy. Here with 3G you can barely load google on mobile (at least, that is my case). If I don't see an H+ on my phone I don't even bother to try going online.

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Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by toyg on Friday August 26, 2016 @11:54AM (#12367080)

But the point is that G3 will saturate and cannot be used at the same time as you talk, so any additional connection is welcome.

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Re:Italy Quake Rescuers Ask Locals to Unlock their Wi-Fi by rurban on Sunday August 28, 2016 @07:04PM (#12378966)

Yes, but my point was that with an earth quake (>6 richter) the copper earth lines will likely be more broken than slow G3 air lines.

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