{"id":2489,"date":"2002-10-05T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2002-10-05T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=68"},"modified":"2010-05-09T18:50:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T21:50:54","slug":"on-wi-fi-802-11b-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/05\/on-wi-fi-802-11b-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"On Wi-Fi (802.11b) in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Fleishman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/80211b.weblogger.com\/\">802.11b\/Wi-Fi News<\/a> pointed me at an interesting item about Wi-Fi in Brazil:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reiter.weblogger.com\/2002\/08\/22\">Alan Reiter<\/a> tells how he spent a couple of weeks in Brazil talking about wireless at &#8220;Mobile Corporate&#8221; conferences. Be sure to read his later entries too.<\/p>\n<p>One of his articles links to Eduardo Prado&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartconvergence.blogger.com.br\/\">Smart Convergence<\/a> blog, which I&#8217;ll read in more detail later. It seems there are good business opportunities for wireless in Brazil, but with the recent devaluations of the Real, investing in imported technology is tough.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Belo Horizonte, a 2.5 megapeople city, Wi-Fi seems virtually unknown. My favorite networking shop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deltatronic.com.br\">Deltatronic<\/a>, has just an access point and a couple of wireless PCMCIA cards from H-Net, and the salesman didn&#8217;t know how many they had sold (if any).<\/p>\n<p>I did some wardriving last weekend, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versiontracker.com\/dyn\/moreinfo\/macosx\/14746\">MacStumbler<\/a>, and couldn&#8217;t find a single network. Of course, buildings here are concrete and brick, so there is less chance of leakage&#8230; I couldn&#8217;t see my own network from the street, even though my access point is mounted on an outside wall.<\/p>\n<p>A company called Pointer (couldn&#8217;t find the URL) makes wireless connections available in several Brazilian airports. I tried it out in June at the S\u00e3o Paulo\/Guarulhos international airport. Any access is first diverted to a log-in page where you have to give a credit card number. I can&#8217;t recall if they mentioned a price, but I didn&#8217;t go further <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_wink.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Fleishman&#8217;s 802.11b\/Wi-Fi News pointed me at an interesting item about Wi-Fi in Brazil: Alan Reiter tells how he spent a couple of weeks in Brazil talking about wireless at &#8220;Mobile Corporate&#8221; conferences. Be sure to read his later entries too. One of his articles links to Eduardo Prado&#8217;s Smart Convergence blog, which I&#8217;ll read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-brasil"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-E9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}