Free Wireless Internet Access in Rijeka

The IT Department of the City of Rijeka, in cooperation with the company “Krk sistemi" ltd., developed the Project of Free Wireless Internet Access for all the citizens that use portable computers, as well as all the tourists and visitors of this city. The free wireless Internet signal covers the downtown area, part of Trsat, the swimming-pool complex at Kantrida, and since October 2009 the Centre Zamet and the cinema "Art-kino Croatia" as well.

The signal coverage in the downtown area forms the “circle” Jadranski trg – Korzo – Ulica Ignacija Henckea – Riva – Splitska ulica – Jadranski trg and Ulica Ante Starčevića. The area covered by free wireless Internet access has been extended to part of Trsat (the area including the Trsat Castle, the Marian Sanctuary of Trsat and the Youth Sports Hall), the swimming-pool complex at Kantrida, the Centre Zamet and the cinema "Art-kino Croatia".

There are overall 64 access points, out of which 32 are situated in 12 different locations on Korzo, while 18 are placed in three different locations in Trsat and 7 at the Kantrida swimming pools, 6 in the Centre Zamet and 1 in the cinema "Art-kino Croatia".

In this way, the maximum number of users who can simultaneously use free Internet access has increased to 4,000.

The signal strength in the zone of coverage is up to 50 dB, which, together with the size of the zone coverage, makes this network the highest quality Wi-Fi zone in Croatia.

The access to the Internet is enabled through the IT infrastructure of the City of Rijeka.

The speed of the wireless Internet access is up to 10 Mbits synchronous.

Limits imposed by the system are the following:

Disabled use of P2P programme
Disabled access to the Internet pages generally considered as objectionable and non-affirmative
Size of data allowed for transfer over HTTP limited to 10 MB
Disabled use of FTP
Disabled use of VPN
Total size of e-mail limited to 3 MB

The project makes use of Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) technology, i.e. wireless computer network based on IEEE 802.11 specifications that prescribe standards of wireless communication, developed by the workgroup of the 11th international body IEEE 802. Wi-Fi is a trademark of Wi-Fi Alliance that prescribes standards and issues certificates for all WI-Fi devices.

All that is necessary to access the Internet by Wi-Fi technology is a card that is today a component of almost every portable computer, being the simplest contemporary form of wireless connection. Besides portable computers, Wi-Fi cards are already a component part of mobile telephones of the later generation, as well as play-stations, so that, for example, Playstation 3 has a built-in Wi-Fi card.