MSNTV 2 Wireless Testing

My MSNTV2 question answering time has been severely restricted due to a host of new projects. They have been trickling in at a rate of one to two every couple of days, but I still have bout 20 questions in the hopper.

So what have I been doing? Well, around here in Silicon Valley (and the country) a host of free wireless broadband services have been popping up. Cities are providing these as a way to get everyone over the evil dialup speed bump and onto the broadband highway. I decided to figure out if MSNTV2 would work with these networks.

My first test was with MetroFi in Cupertino, California just a block or two from Apple's headquarters. The test seemed to go quite well except I was unable to actually register over wireless and video playback was choppy (MetroFi only gives you 300Kbps which is barely enough for one user to watch videos smoothly let alone be shared between many users).

If you are already a registered MSNTV2 user, you could just pop on a wireless USB adapter and connect to the free network and you should be on your way. All you'll pay is $9.95 per month for MSNTV2 and enjoy broadband speeds (well 300Kbps barely qualifies in my opinion, but WAY better than creaky old dialup). Imagine that...broadband for only $9.95 per month (dialup is $21.95 still and is slow as ever).