Internet Services related newsitems

• • Libraries prove a popular place to stay connected

    • 26 Nov 2009
    • Hutt City Council
    • Hutt City libraries have had a bumper year with a 14 percent increase in visitors over the last 12 months. Libraries manager Sandra Mann says it’s thanks largely to Connect, which provides enhanced internet and computer access.
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    • hutt valley
    • internet services
  
  

• • Hutt City Council backs Smartlinx3 Ltd

    • 24 Nov 2009
    • Hutt City Council
    • Hutt City Council decided to increase its shareholding in broadband company Smartlinx3 Limited in a meeting last night. Mayor David Ogden said the funding injection would put Smartlinx3 in a position to participate in the Government’s Ultrafast Broadband initiative. He said Council would continue to support Smartlinx3 which was established to provide a fast, open-access broadband network for the Hutt Valley and Porirua.
    • Tagged as:
    • hutt valley
    • internet services
    • porirua
  
  

• • WiFi @ Hashigo Zake

    • 25 Sep 2009
    • The Wellingtonista
    • We are informed (thanks Chris!) that Hashigo Zake (website here, blog here) has free wi-fi for patrons. Nice. Message ends.
    • Tagged as:
    • internet services
    • restaurants and bars

    • This Wellingtonista newsitem has 10 comments.

      • ‘ Hear hear! (Here here?)’
      • ‘They're not just shaped like giant lips: they are stereotypical made-up lady lips. If having a bunch of women's lips drinking your piss isn't meant to be sexist, would it feel ok to have a male mouth or two there? What do those lips signify? Count me amo’
      • ‘Ah ok, yes I went in and saw for myself. Dont think it is particularly sexist- maybe just a slightly bizarre sense of interior design! I was chatting to one of the staff who said that they were going to remove them soon as a couple of people had been off’

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• • IT Rockstar prize goes to young Drupal geek

    • 10 Jun 2009
    • Newswire.co.nz
    • NEW ZEALAND’s newest and brightest IT star this year is a 21-year-old Wellington software developer whose leading-edge projects are bringing corporate and community groups into the future.
    • Tagged as:
    • internet services
  
  

• • 570 community websites under threat

    • 18 May 2009
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Council annual planning rounds are by their nature a stressful time for community groups, and this year is a classic. The latest round creates the prospect of losing the Wellington Community Net, a free website hosting and support service for community groups.
    • Tagged as:
    • community groups
    • internet services
    • wcn funding

    • This Wellington Scoop newsitem has 10 comments.

      • ‘I signed the petition and it appears there has been no decision made ,yet. Theres a lot of miss information put around by vested interests ,including the author of this article. I received an E mail from the Mayors office an it appears from that there ar’
      • ‘Two years ago I established the website for the Hutt Valley Angling Club and have been supporting it ever since. I was most impressed with the assistance offered by WCN in establishing the Website, and by the generosity of WCC for providing all funding.’
      • ‘I host the Mt Victoria website at http://mtvictoria.org.nz, which is not part of WCN. To be able to do so, I have re-purposed $1,000 worth of existing PC, loaded a server operating system, installed Drupal (an open source content management system), inst’

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• • CityLink wins Cyber Gold

    • 15 May 2009
    • Citylink
    • The team at CityLink is very proud to have won Cyber Gold at the Dominion Post Gold Awards Gala evening held on 13 May and also congratulate all other winners and finalists.
  
  

• • Include Wellington Community Net and Community ICT Funding In The Draft LTCCP for 2009-2019

    • 7 May 2009
    • Wellington City Council
    • Wellington Community Net (WCN) is a free website hosting service for 570+ Wellington-based community groups owned by Wellington City Council and funded via Activity 5.6.5 in the LTCCP (Community ICT). The draft LTCCP 2009-2019 retains Activity 5.6.5 but removes all funding.
    • Tagged as:
    • community groups
    • consultation
    • internet services
    • wcn funding
  
  

• • Free the software, free yourself!

    • 11 Sep 2008
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to be held this year on Saturday 20th September, 2008. Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere! So what's happening in Wellington? Well, there's a hackfest, a bar camp and free coffee all day long. Check out the software freedom day site for more information...
    • Tagged as:
    • computers
    • events
    • internet services
  
  

• • Council to Investigate Ways to Improve Broadband

    • 11 Apr 2008
    • Wellington City Council
    • Making use of existing city pipes and laying new ducting for fibre-optic cable while other work is carried out are two of the low cost options Wellington City Council will investigate as part of its bid to improve community access to fast, affordable broadband.
    • Tagged as:
    • internet services
  
  

• • Free Wi-Fi in Wellington

    • 27 Feb 2008
    • Capital Times
    • A group of Wellingtonians aim to make wireless internet connection free nationwide – starting with Wellington’s CBD.
    • Tagged as:
    • community groups
    • internet services
  
  

• • CaféNet for your iPod

    • 26 Feb 2008
    • The Wellingtonista
    • We like CaféNet at the Wellingtonista, yes we do. But it's not always an unqualified feeling. Mostly it works well once you find a hotspot - and more arrive all the time. But sometimes, and with some devices, things aren't so rosy. At this Wellingtonista's risk of sounding like a spoiled geek whose new toy won't do what it says on the box, it seems that iPods Touch and iPhones don't always have an easy time connecting to CaféNet.
    • Tagged as:
    • internet services

    • This Wellingtonista newsitem has 3 comments.

      • ‘Thanks for the explanation on the 169.* addresses. The idea of noting the IP addresses was exactly what I had in mind - I've fixed problems on other wi-fi networks in the past by giving the device a plausible (but sufficiently highly numbered to avoid c’
      • ‘Great post Alan -- great idea and an intriguing problem. Not that you necessarily suggest it is so, but it doesn't seem very plausible that the CaféNet DHCP server is supplying half-baked or malformed DHCP infos to the iDevices, especially since other t’
      • ‘The IP addresses beginning with 169.* are the addresses OS X self-assigns when it can't get an IP address from a DHCP server. So those yellow pins are symptoms of the iP{hone,od} not being able to find a DHCP server, rather than of a cafenet DHCP server ’

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• • Laptop Culture

    • 10 Feb 2008
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Note: The following is not an advertisement or "astroturfing" but just an article on a service offered in Wellington With all the talk of connecting Wellington with city-wide wifi I thought I'd remind readers of the interim stop-gap: Cafenet. I have been using Cafenet for a few years and found it to be reliable and fast (where you can get it). The biggest downside is that it isn't free.
    • Tagged as:
    • internet services

    • This Wellingtonista newsitem has 9 comments.

      • ‘just ask wherever you are. I know that the cafes I go to will let you plug in if you ask nicely’
      • ‘Does anyone know the best places I can safely sit down and plug my laptop into the power within the city?’
      • ‘I remember the BBC doing a piece on that in the late 90's where corporate wifi was "leaking" onto the street.’

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• • Are we a modern city?

    • 16 Jan 2008
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Case in point ... why do we not have broadband access to everyone in the (wider) city?
    • Tagged as:
    • internet services

    • This Wellingtonista newsitem has 10 comments.

      • ‘I agree, we don't want or have to wait for wither local or central government agencies to do this "for" us. We *could* just do it ourselves and then can catch-up if they want. That's the beauty of the Meraki (and others) devices ...’
      • ‘Well... CityLink as much of the CBD covered. Weta have laid a large fibre ring out in Miramar for themselves, but they must have lots of spare fibres in the cable for others to use. The WCC has said it'll spend $40 million on this, when I looked at it ba’
      • ‘I wish there was more open wireless in the city. :(’

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• • Webstock Mini

    • 7 Jun 2007
    • The Wellingtonista
    • he handy pocket-sized version of Webstock returns to Wellington on Tuesday next week. You might think it's all for uber nerds and super geeks, but you would be wrong.
    • Tagged as:
    • design
    • events
    • internet services

    • This Wellingtonista newsitem has 2 comments.

      • ‘Like Martha said, if they're using the same caterers again, that's pretty much worth your money right there, assuming you also drink your weight in booze too. Oh, and there's the knowledge side of things as well.’
      • ‘After the last one, how can we not?’

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• • The Film Archives Cafe

    • 14 May 2007
    • CafeNET
    • Check out our latest CafeNET location at 84 Taranaki Street.
    • Tagged as:
    • cafes
    • internet services
  
  

• • Council Seeks Ideas for Broadband Vision

    • 27 Apr 2007
    • Wellington City Council
    • Wellington City Council is seeking ideas on ways it can achieve its broadband vision for the city.
    • Tagged as:
    • internet services
    • wellington city council
  
  

• • Council Agrees to Broadband Vision

    • 28 Feb 2007
    • Wellington City Council
    • Wellington City Councillors have agreed to a vision that could see affordable, high-speed broadband access throughout the city by 2012.
    • Tagged as:
    • internet services
    • trolley buses
  
  

• • CafeNET @ The Ground Floor Cafe

    • 2 Oct 2006
    • CafeNET
    • CafeNET is now at the Ground Floor Cafe - 20 Customhouse Quay.
  
  

• • Councils welcome smartlinx3 funding

    • 8 Sep 2006
    • Hutt City Council
    • Smartlinx3 was confirmed today as a successful applicant with funding of $2.37 million approved by the Government.
    • Tagged as:
    • internet services
  
  

• • CafeNET System Upgraded

    • 28 Aug 2006
    • CafeNET
    • We have made an upgrade to our systems which means things should run faster, logins are quicker, its easier to see you status when you login and no one should be getting stuck on the front page anymore.
    • Tagged as:
    • cafes
  
  

• • Councils increase investment in regional broadband

    • 22 May 2006
    • Hutt City Council
    • Hutt City, Upper Hutt City and {Porirua} City Councils have decided to increase their investments in the Smartlinx3 broadband company to take advantage of extra funding available from central government.
    • Tagged as:
    • internet services
    • porirua
  
  

• • Latest CafeNET Newsletter

    • 18 May 2006
    • CafeNET
    • Our latest news letter update.
  
  

• • New CafeNET Location!

    • 16 Jan 2006
    • CafeNET
    • CafeNET is now available in the Southern Cross Bar and Restaurant at 35 Abel Smith Street
    • Tagged as:
    • cafes
  
  

• • More CafeNET in Porirua

    • 2 Dec 2005
    • CafeNET
    • Smartlinx3 now have CafeNET hotspots operating at Whitireia Polytechnic.
    • Tagged as:
    • porirua
  
  

• • New Location in the CBD

    • 10 Nov 2005
    • CafeNET
    • After popular request from CafeNET users we have installed a wireless access point at the corner of Blair and Wakefield Streets.
  
  

• • More CafeNET in Cuba Mall

    • 4 Nov 2005
    • CafeNET
    • We have extended our coverage in Cuba Mall.
    • Tagged as:
    • cuba street
  
  

• • October Double Token Deal

    • 3 Nov 2005
    • CafeNET
    • A big thank you to all who purchased CafeNET tokens during the promotion we ran in October. The promotion was a huge success and we plan to run this again soon.
  
  

• • CafeNET on Cuba Street

    • 19 Oct 2005
    • CafeNET
    • We have just completed our first of a number of CafeNET locations in the Cuba Street area.
    • Tagged as:
    • cuba street
  
  

• • CafeNET available at Archives New Zealand

    • 4 Oct 2005
    • CafeNET
    • CafeNET is now available at Archives New Zealand on Mulgrave Street.
  
  

• • Another Wellington Library with CafeNET

    • 9 Sep 2005
    • CafeNET
    • CafeNET is now available in the Newtown Library at 13 Constable Street, Newtown.
    • Tagged as:
    • newtown