Don’t miss today’s news from The Star: T.O. to become wireless hotspot

Toronto Hydro Corp. will announce Tuesday that it plans to turn Canada’s largest city into one giant wireless hotspot, directly challenging the country’s major mobile phone carriers for a chunk of the $8 billion a year wireless market.

With the deployment, which sources say could be available in the downtown core as early as this fall, Toronto joins a growing list of North American cities, including Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco, that have announced plans to bring low-cost, broadband wireless access to their citizens and businesses.

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Do you know how can you have Toronto map, offline, on a PDA?

Easy:

1. Download TTC PDF map from www.toronto.ca/ttc/pdf/rideguide.pdf (or see www.toronto.ca/ttc/schedules/index.htm).

2. Install Acrobat Reader on you PDA.

3. Install PDF fiel on your PDA.

That’s it, you’re done. I’m using from time to time Toronto PDF map on my Palm.

According to Torrentfreak Rogers is throttling Bittorrent traffic. He suggests a solution: encrypting :

“Currently both Azureus and µTorrent included this new form of encryption (specs) in their latest Beta’s. The fact that these two clients are actively working together to implement this new feature is promising and will make this form of encryption the new standard since the users of these two clients cover the majority of all Bittorrent users.

There are two “encryption modes” available.

The 2 different payload encryption methods plaintext transmission and RC4 provide a different degree of protocol obfuscation, security and speed. Where the plaintext mode only provides basic anti-shaping obscurity, no security and low CPU usage the RC4 encryption obfuscates the entire stream and not only the header and adds some cryptographic security at the price of spent CPU cycles.”

Good to know.