DISQUS

Mike42 · 1 year ago

Here's a data point for you: If you generously attribute every WiFi access point a 100m range, the total area covered by every publicly-accessable WiFi hotspot in the world still adds up to about the size of the Isle of Wight.

Of course WiFi location services use private ones as well, which are probably several orders of magnitude larger in number. But compared to mobile coverage it's a pathetically small area available for location services. And in dense metro areas where WiFi is dense cell spacing is normally a block or less, meaning cell location could/will do the job just as well, with far less battery drain.

£0.02.

/m
DanLane · 1 year ago

All of which counts for shit when neither service works properly!

This morning BT OpenZone on the Thames refused to give me an IP (as it has done for the past 2 months) and Three's mobile broadband network wouldn't connect.

I resorted to using O2!!!.... you know something is wrong when O2 are the saviour!
Kip Hakes · 1 year ago

LOL - me too! Had to resort to firing up Joikuspot and using my O2 data (sparingly!)

K
Mac Morrison · 1 year ago

were you in a boat - aka a big metal box fuckin with your signal.
DanLane · 1 year ago

No more so than I am any other morning when it usually works :P
Mac Morrison · 1 year ago

solar flares?
or just blame boris?