Pioneering Wi-Fi City Sees Startup Woes

[Tyler]

"More than a month after St. Cloud launched what analysts say is the country's first free citywide Wi-Fi network, Lusardi and others in this 28,000-person Orlando suburb are still paying to use their own Internet service providers as dead spots and weak signals keep some residents offline and force engineers to retool the free system."

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[vicki2]

I'm with the people of St. Cloud ...maybe it will get better!

I wanted to put it in my house and because there are old thick walls, it became a financial impossibility right now. That said, a friend recently gave her town wi fi as a present ...of course, it's in the desert, and there are only about 50 people in a small town, but she's better off than in this old house!