connectivity

WiFi Is Critical To Academia, The WiFi Alliance Says

study sponsored by the WiFi alliance reveals the following:

WiFi and college choice

  • 90% of college students say Wi-Fi access is as essential to education as classrooms and computers
  • 57% say they wouldn’t go to a college that doesn’t have free Wi-Fi
  • 79% say that without Wi-Fi access, college would be a lot harder
  • 60% agree that widely available Wi-Fi on campus is an indication that a school cares about its students

WiFi and where they use it

  • 55% have connected from coffee shops and restaurants
  • 47% from parks
  • 24% from in their cars

WiFi in the classroom

  • 55% have checked Facebook™ or MySpace™ and sent or received e-mail while using their laptop in class
  • 47% have sent instant messages to a friend during class
  • 44% used Wi-Fi to get a head start on an assignment before a class was finished

WiFi and linkbaiting statistics

  • If forced to choose, 48% would give up beer before giving up Wi-Fi

Survey methodology: “In conjunction with the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wakefield Research surveyed 501 U.S. college students in September 2008. The sampling variation in this survey is plus or minus 4.3 percentage points.”

I’m A Fonero, Are You A Fonero Too?

Now that I’ve moved I’ve finally set up my Fonera. I had hoped to offer a story about the process, but it was so simple I can’t really say much more than “I plugged it in, I registered it, it worked.” The Fonera is a tiny little router/WiFi access point that looks worlds better than […] » about 500 words