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06/19/2005: "What hath Dave wraught?"

I'm in D/FW. Its almost 6am, local time. Wayport is nowhere to be found, but T-Mobile has its WiFi service up and running.

I helped secure the deal and drove the decision five years ago, and now Dave Vucina and his motley crew seem to have ballparks and pancake houses on the brain. Nevermind the Big Macs.

All that growth is interesting, but the core of Wayport was always the traveling business person. I don't think those guys spend a lot of time wolfing down cheeseburgers at the merchant of McDeath. I'll be in Austin later this week (we're moving Netgate's warehouse). Perhaps I'll drop in on McDave and report that something here is still advertising "Wayport_Access" as an ESSID, though its a IBSS (no APs) network, with a MAC address that starts 02:0E:35, and its only intermittent. I think some stray piece of gear was once using Wayport's wireless network here, and went tits up when the APs were all powered off.

I was a big part of the reason that public WiFi happened in airports and hotels, but especially airports, and its hard to see all that work go to waste over one man's lack of vision.

Update: Wayport had previously announced this, but haven't updated their airports page.