Portland's Wi-Fi Antennas from SkyPilot

MetroFi's Wi-Fi antennas are sprouting like mushrooms on lamposts all over downtown Portland. They're the vanguard of Portland's $20 million city-wide WiFi cloud being built by MetroFi. The cylindrical SkyPilot antennas feature a 400 mW WiFi hotspot with a switchable 5.8 GHz backhaul. They can't be accessed by the public yet. It doesn't even look like they're plugged in. According to Rogoway, MetroFi will install antennas on the eastside, just across the Willamette River, within in the next couple weeks. MetroFi is still testing the system, but it expects free Web access in parts of the city by the holidays.