Pack up your modem in your old kit bag

From The Globe and Mail - Technology News:

Wireless Toronto, a volunteer group devoted to providing location-specific Internet content across the city through a series of free Wi-Fi hot spots, has been meeting every month for two years to plan new spots and strategies. But recently they decided they would like to have more fun in 2007, so starting this month, they're getting together for something called Hack Nights. Their first project, which they will be field-testing today, is a spanner in the growing Wi-Fi service-industry works, an ambulatory Internet system they call "the Roach Coach." "It comes from the nickname for snack trucks," group founder Gabe Sawhney says. "It came from wanting to offer Wi-Fi for gatherings at Nathan Phillips Square." Bell and Rogers both offer a book-size WiMAX-like wireless modem (which you can plug in, anywhere in the city's coverage area, and hook up seamlessly to the Net). Using that modem, Hack Night hackers have slung together a backpack hot spot, powered by an 18-volt cordless drill battery.

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