Tuesday 11 October 2011

wimax->wi-fi

http://www.ithome.com.tw/itadm/article.php?c=70141

臺北市政府自7月啟用特定場所的無線上網服務以來,現在又開通全臺北地區室外公共場所總共約540個無線存取點(AP),以及約500輛公車上的無線AP,提供免費的Wi-Fi上網服務

臺北地區免費無線上網服務全面開通,使用人數達180萬人。臺北市政府自7月啟用特定場所的無線上網服務以來,現在又開通全臺北地區室外公共場所總共約540個無線存取點(AP),以及約500輛公車上的無線AP,提供免費的Wi-Fi上網服務,傳輸頻寬為512Kbps。臺北市政府資訊處表示,現在全臺北共有2千多臺AP,整體建置費用為3千萬元。

這次全臺北無線網路同時採用WiMax與Wi-Fi兩種傳輸技術,布建架構分為3部分,包括資料中心、高樓上的無線基地臺與各地的無線AP。負責推動這次計畫的全球一動公共業務部協理黃國峰表示,無線基地臺架設於建築物樓頂,透過50Mbps~100Mbps光纖網路連結到資料中心,每座基地臺的訊號範圍涵蓋半徑500~1,000公尺內,傳送4Mbps~8Mbps頻寬的WiMax訊號給各角落的AP,透過AP將WiMax轉換為Wi-Fi訊號,提供Wi-Fi服務。

目前已有企業布建全球一動WiMax網路服務。全球一動董事長何薇玲表示,導入的用途為語音、視訊、監控系統、無線上網等。文⊙鄭逸寧

Saturday 1 October 2011

reply to ruth

Hi,

Thanks for your comments.

My artworks were displayed/shared by different ways, and I will introduct it step by step in the below:

1. The project website: the users can connect to the site to see the real-time and dyanmica images produced from the databased.

2. The metro station: I have displayed 41 prints on the wall in one of Taipei metro station as the ordinary exhibition. The main difference is the visitors can bring the prints they want to home. This was sharing in physical world and you also can call it "fresh" P2P protocol.

3. The performance website: I had a live performance displayed in one sites. The users could see what I saw (eyes and my laptop's collecting wi-fi data application) via the image I taken, google map and Wi-Fi colour grids.

4. My youtube channel: the users can see Wi-Fi images and music in Wi-Fi video.

5. My music channel: I uploaded my music to gwrxuk.official.fm and the audience can listen to my music online.

6. The text: I am keeping writing the blogs and papers to intoduce my project and artworks.



From the list, you could notice the audience/participants can interact with my works in different ways, including online/offline approaches. My works considered Wi-Fi users as cyborgs/posthumans, and I wanted to transform the viewers/listeners to cyborgs/posthumans. Because the audience interact with my works in online/offline ways, they can reconfigure themselves to be in the cyborg/posthuman state. I will keep to try different possibilities to expand my works to the unpredictable fields.