I'll be starting ISU this Fall, and wanted to know how is the Campus-wide WiFi coverage? Since AT&T doesn't provide 3G coverage in Ames (that's based looking at your comments and AT&T coverage maps), I was wondering if using campus's wifi is an option. I am in California right now, and have an AT&T family plan. I don't want to switch to another carrier if I don't have to, but I do *need* (need is work/vpn related) a decent data-connection to iPhone the whole day on campus.
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You will have to register your phone the first time it connects to the internet through the IASTATE network but that is not a big deal.
My concern would be whether or not you can walk across campus and not drop your connection. I believe you should seamlessly jump between access points but I can't say I have walked around campus with my phone to see.
My concern would be whether or not you can walk across campus and not drop your connection. I believe you should seamlessly jump between access points but I can't say I have walked around campus with my phone to see.
Thanks for the response. And yea, as you said, it would be interesting to see if jumps between access points create any issues.
There is a likely possibility you will be fine. A lot of municipalities that offer Wi-Fi now employ kind of a "web" to their Wi-Fi where you draw off the closest access points and then seamlessly jump to the next one when the signal gets strong enough. Usually pretty seamless according to the people who originally told me about it.
The issue is whether or not Iowa State went to something like this (or maybe they've always used it). Overall, you should be fine more than 90% of the time.
Cool. So, I guess if I got my iPhone 3G there, I should not have any problems! (And now the iphone 3GS has got me drooling.. hah)
Longtime listener, first time caller...
My husband and I both have US Cellular because we travel extensively in Iowa (he) and around the country (me) for our jobs. USC is the best for rural Iowa, and I've not had a problem except in San Diego. I had been lusting after an iPhone and a few months ago we really dove in and did the research.
Bang - we find out that our house is ~100 feet too far north. We live in the *huge* town of McCallsburg in NE Story County and there is some small blip in the coverage map that means we're going to get crap reception in our house, but if we were across the street, it would be all good. They also told us that we'd have to have the bill sent to a different address than our home because that street address is blocked from being their customer. What the heck?!
My better half spend a great deal of time in the home office. Being told that our house need to be moved across the street is not exactly a way to gain a couple of customers that burn through 5K minutes a month...
So US Cellular, in a few weeks you'll drop the price on the new HTC Touch Pro and we'll toss out our 2.5 year phones (I can't believe they're still alive ... knock on wood!) that are about dead, and life will continue on for better or worse. At least we'll know we can make and receive calls from our house!
My husband and I both have US Cellular because we travel extensively in Iowa (he) and around the country (me) for our jobs. USC is the best for rural Iowa, and I've not had a problem except in San Diego. I had been lusting after an iPhone and a few months ago we really dove in and did the research.
Bang - we find out that our house is ~100 feet too far north. We live in the *huge* town of McCallsburg in NE Story County and there is some small blip in the coverage map that means we're going to get crap reception in our house, but if we were across the street, it would be all good. They also told us that we'd have to have the bill sent to a different address than our home because that street address is blocked from being their customer. What the heck?!
My better half spend a great deal of time in the home office. Being told that our house need to be moved across the street is not exactly a way to gain a couple of customers that burn through 5K minutes a month...
So US Cellular, in a few weeks you'll drop the price on the new HTC Touch Pro and we'll toss out our 2.5 year phones (I can't believe they're still alive ... knock on wood!) that are about dead, and life will continue on for better or worse. At least we'll know we can make and receive calls from our house!