Tag: Wi-Fi
Fed up with the tyrannical monopolies and shoddy service provided by Time Warner, Comcast, and Optimum, a group of geeks have banded together to make their own citywide, community-owned wi-fi network; an indienet, if you will. The network, called NYC Mesh, links together routers, aka “nodes,” set up in apartments all over the city to […]
Residents in Brooklyn are now able to check out Wi-Fi hotspots for up to one year, at no cost if they meet certain criteria. For now, card-carrying visitors to public libraries in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, and Bushwick will have the opportunity to take home free broadband access as part of a $2 million program funded by Google and […]
City officials recently announced that the conversion of NYC pay phones into Wi-Fi hotspots will start at the beginning of next year. But before you get excited by the promise of free public wi-fi, there’s a catch: The Verge reports that poorer neighborhoods will be getting the short end of the stick, at least at […]
The beaches of the Rockaway Peninsula will become the latest NYC public spaces to get free Wi-Fi, Parks Department Commissioner Mitchell Silver announced over the weekend. The city will provide internet access at Beach 9th through Beach 12th streets, Beach 73rd, Beach 86th, Beach 97th, Beach 106th, and Beach 116th streets, DNAinfo reports. Good news: you’ll be able […]
We’ve been hearing rumblings about a plan to turn NYC pay phones into free, public Wi-Fi hotspot for years now, but not much has materialized. According to the de Blasio administration, however, that could change soon. Yesterday, the city issued a request for proposals to transform up to 10,000 of the mostly unused telephones into […]
Downtown Brooklyn became the latest NYC neighborhood to get free public Wi-Fi this week, launching wireless internet service in the areas surrounding Fulton Mall. The $150,000 project, financed by the city’s Economic Development Corporation, brings Wi-Fi to the region bounded by Tillary Street, Cadman Plaza West, Schermerhorn Street, and Flatbush Avenue. Borough President Eric Adams, in […]
The SXSWiest thing to come out of SXSW Interactive this year might be the BB.Suit, a onesie that functions as a Wi-Fi hotspot, so you never have to go without your precious internet. According to its manufacturer, a company called ByBorre, the suit is 3D-knitted — basically, created by an automated knitting machine — and […]
The mayor’s office announced a big free public wi-fi initiative today, which is good for everyone–you’ll be able to hook up for free in new areas across the five boroughs–but especially for residents of low- and middle-income areas, which often get shortchanged on other city programs (ahem, Citi Bike). The program, funded mostly with private […]
Yesterday, free Wi-Fi service was launched at thirty-two of New York City’s parks. Because we are fond of the internet, we decided to make you a comprehensive map listing WiFi-equipped parks for those in need of a free signal. High-speed internet is becoming a ubiquitous part of our public spaces. Yey! Note that users are […]
Number-crunching Austrian artist Peter Jellitsch was inspired by the internet to create the above sculpture, but not in the nostalgic/free associative/more-is-more way that’s typical of much net art–Jellitsch was simply interested in signal strength. For 45 days, the artist used a radio-wave-measuring device to read the strength of the Wi-Fi network at the Bleecker Street […]
