Songs of Praise - Wireless Internet
Post categories: broadband, digital inclusion
|13:00 UK time, Friday, 20 January 2012
Rolling out high-speed internet to rural areas has become a perennial problem - laying miles of cable to a single house can be costly indeed. Wireless internet could be one of the answers - and in a village just outside of Colchester in Essex, Coggeshall Church has found a unique way to help out. By attaching a dicreet Wi-Fi antenna to their own steeple, they can boost the signal to cover a much wider area, providing internet access to much of the local community.
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For more on the Coggeshall Church's Wi-Fi project watch Songs Of Praise on BBC iPlayer - available until 29 January, or find out more about wireless internet in the WebWise guide.
Alex Duin has spent his whole life wading through technology and the media, and in the process has worked and written all over the place, including for Channel 4, and Digital Unite. He currently lives in London.
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At 20:48 23rd Jan 2012, Dawn Joslin Swindells wrote:Coggeshall is outside of Colchester in the County of Esssex; NOT Kent!
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