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First Wi-Fi Town in UK is Swindon – Well Connected With Free Interweb Access

by Jay Garrett on November 17, 2009

Diana DorsThe Wiltshire town of Swindon has another claim to fame – other than being the birthplace of Diana Dors (hence the photo).

Swindon is also now to be crowned as the UK’s first Wi-Fi town – this means offering ‘free’ public Wi-Fi to all 186,000 residents.

By April 2010 the Wi-Fi “Signal” service will be in place and residents wont have to pay a penny for line rental or connection.

The deal is that peeping at low-bandwidth sites is free but users will be able to pay for a 20Mb upgrade. This fee would be “significantly less” than current broadband suppliers, scheme bosses estimate.

Downloading music files or streaming TV shows from iPlayer will inevitably cost extra, which will go some way to paying for the £1 million network which will be run by Digital City UK Ltd, in which Swindon Borough Council has a 35% share.

Over 1,400 Wi-Fi hot-spots will be erected, with work beginning in early December with the “Wi-Fi mesh” being completed by April next year.

Primarily aimed at residents, the Wi-Fi will also be available to visitors, albeit at a pay as you go price.

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A White ChristMesh? The Mesh Pulse

by Jay Garrett on November 29, 2007

MeshpulseSay hello to the Mesh G92 Pulse Pro. Ok, it’s not going to wow you with its cutting edge styling but, saying that, where it lacks in looks it gains in performance thanks to the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT graphics card hidden beneath the unassuming exterior.

The GeForce 8800 GT is the hottest property in gaming right now, thanks to its low price and hardcore performance. The G92 Pulse Pro also comes with the fastest Intel Core 2 Duo CPU available — the 3GHz E6850 — and 2GB of RAM, so it’ll barge its way through anything from gaming to video editing.

The £799 asking price also includes a 500GB hard drive, LightScribe 18x DVD rewriter, SLI-capable motherboard, and an included 22-inch widescreen monitor that runs at 1,680×1,050 pixels. We also like that it comes with a wireless Logitech cordless keyboard and mouse combo, plus 2.1-channel speakers and a subwoofer.

Preliminary 3DMark 2006 benchmarks reveal a score of 12,265 — or ‘bloody fast’ in human-speak.

If you’re after an inexpensive gaming PC with a solid specification for Crimbo, this is definately worth sneeking a peep of, more over, it’s available to buy on the Mesh site now – and they do pay monthly deals!  If you can’t quite stretch to that, how about checking out its quad core fitted stablemate that’s £100 cheaper?

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