{"id":1355,"date":"2007-07-13T04:31:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T11:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2007-07-13T04:31:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T11:31:19","slug":"theres-now-free-wifi-on-the-haapsalu-hiiumaa-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/13\/theres-now-free-wifi-on-the-haapsalu-hiiumaa-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s now free WiFi on the Hiiumaa Ferry!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/cfarivar\/798456710\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1386\/798456710_61f273f05e_m_d.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\"\/><\/a>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wifi.ee\">Veljo Haamer<\/a> and his band of WiFi minions, there&#8217;s now free WiFi on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hiiumaa\">Hiiumaa<\/a> ferry, a journey that takes an hour-and-a-half to complete from the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>It works via a long-range EVDO modem, connected to a WiFi access point, and provides free Internet access in the on-board restaurant. It took Veljo and two assistants just a short couple of hours to get the new maritime access point set up this morning.<\/p>\n<p>I never cease to be amazed at the level of technological enthusiasm in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Veljo Haamer and his band of WiFi minions, there&#8217;s now free WiFi on the Hiiumaa ferry, a journey that takes an hour-and-a-half to complete from the mainland. It works via a long-range EVDO modem, connected to a WiFi access point, and provides free Internet access in the on-board restaurant. It took Veljo and two assistants just a short couple of hours to get the new maritime access point set up this morning. I never cease to be amazed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-estonia","category-tech-in-far-off-lands","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-lR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}