{"id":1074,"date":"2005-06-29T15:44:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T15:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovery.org\/tech\/2005\/06\/29\/orlando_unplugs_its_wifi_netwo\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:58:11","slug":"orlando_unplugs_its_wifi_netwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2005\/06\/29\/orlando_unplugs_its_wifi_netwo\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando unplugs its Wi-Fi network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite high hopes, Orlando&#8217;s Wi-Fi network doesn&#8217;t attract enough users to justify the expense, according to Mark Schlueb writing in the <em>Orlando Sentinel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230; the service worked well &#8212; as many as 200 people using laptop or hand-held computers could log on at once to check e-mail or surf the Web &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; only about 27 people a day, on average, accessed the free service. City officials said they couldn&#8217;t continue to justify the $1,800-a-month expense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>See:<\/em> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/orl-locwifi21062105jun21,0,6347590.story\">City Yanks Plug On Free Wireless Zone for Internet<\/a>,&#8221; by Mark Schlueb,<em> Orlando Sentinel<\/em>, Jun. 21, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite high hopes, Orlando&#8217;s Wi-Fi network doesn&#8217;t attract enough users to justify the expense, according to Mark Schlueb writing in the Orlando Sentinel. &#8230; the service worked well &#8212; as many as 200 people using laptop or hand-held computers could log on at once to check e-mail or surf the Web &#8230; &#8230; only about 27 people a day, on average, accessed the free service. City officials said they couldn&#8217;t continue to justify the $1,800-a-month expense. See: &#8220;City Yanks Plug On Free Wireless Zone for Internet,&#8221; by Mark Schlueb, Orlando Sentinel, Jun. 21, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"coauthors":[112],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-municipal-wi-fi-networks"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Hance Haney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1074"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}