Boston – An Unwired City

I’m up in Boston this weekend to attend a friend’s wedding. From my friends’ apartment in South End, I can reach three different access points.

Yesterday I needed to adjust the forwarding on my VoIP telephone. We hadn’t yet met with our friends, so on a whim, I decided to see if there was wireless in the park near the restaurant where we had lunch.

We were near Harvard’s JFK School of Government, in Newton Market park. Sure enough, I logged on to an access point with the default “linksys” SSID. A few mouse clicks later and my VoIP phone was ringing straight to my mobile phone. Kewlness.

There are a few organized wireless projects in the Boston/Cambridge area. Seems Cambridge is more active than Boston – most likely since its the home of MIT.

Seems like having a net connection available is becoming a prerequisite in this ever-incresingly connected world.