Wireless Networks in Tokyo
I just returned from a long vacation, including a stop in Tokyo. The international airport in Tokyo is Narita Airport - about and hour and a half by high-speed train from downtown Tokyo. The train runs through mostly rural areas and then eventually into more dense urban areas.
For kicks my friend decided to run Net Stubmler to see how many Wifi networks we would encounter on the train ride. Here are the results:
Number of “access points”: 855
Number of “distinct” networks: 587
Most common channel: 11
That is a lot more networks that I was expecting. Not too suprisingly, almost half of them were unsecured.
Comments
This is cool. Not surprising about how many you'd see on a quick train ride. I read the other day in wifi planet that "The largest year-on-year rise in Wi-Fi network usage was discovered in London, where there are 57% more wireless network access points today than in 2005. The percentage increase in New York was an impressive 20%. In Paris, the increase from 2004 to 2006 was 119%."
Those are some amazing growth rates!
Posted by: sherman | June 20, 2006 03:54 PM