We’re very excited to announce the availability of our newest hotspot in Wagner Park at the south end of Battery Park City. This hotspot is a partnership with the Battery Park City Authority, and we hope will be just the first of multiple hotspots throughout Battery Park City.
Take a trip down to Wagner Park! It [...]

Gramstand, one of our favorite NYCwireless hotspots, is in the final running for the Ideablob Competition. Go vote for this great coffeeshop and friend of NYCwireless!

Gramstand Friends and Family,
Thanks to your lovely support, we are now in the finals of the Ideablob Competition… so WE NEED YOUR VOTE, ONE LAST TIME. If we win [...]

We’re very excited to announce the availability of our newest hotspot in Jackson Square Park at Greenwich Avenue and Eighth Avenue in the West Village. This hotspot is a partnership with Hines, the developers of the One Jackson Square building that is next to the park.

One Jackson Square Brings FREE HIGHSPEED INTERNET to Jackson Square [...]

Laura and I had a lot of fun talking on the panel at the NY:MIEG event Wireless, Wimax & Mobile 2008 and Beyond: The Future of Communications. We talked about Wi-Fi, WiMax, and Cell networks, as well as devices and content. Laura talked about her research about how people use hotspots. Needless to say, lots [...]

Our own Klaus Ernst (he’s an active NYCwireless member) reports on some of availability of the CBS MobileZone on Wi-Fi Net News.
The 47th Street Subway entrance has the “CBS mobile ((ZONE)) surf the web here. Free!” orange banner (see picture) but there was no hotspot. Maybe next time.

Well, it’s not hopeless, but CBS is [...]

Site
DNS
ISP
IP Type/addr

109 Ave D., Manhattan
ca.nycwireless.net
bway.net
216.220.113.21

910 Dekalb Ave, Brooklyn
ca-dekalb.homedns.org
Cable Modem
DHCP

1363 Franklin Ave, Bronx
ca-franklin.homedns.org
Cable Modem
DHCP

SuperNode Administration.

Our pilot testing of the WifiDog federation is complete. WifiDog is a hotspot management software from Ile Sans Fil that runs on a standard Linksys WRT54G using open source firmware. With WifiDog, we can now have a federation of nodes that have access to a central server for:

real-time monitoring of node status
managed user authentication
splash page [...]

[ March 30, 2005; 7:15 pm to 9:15 pm. ] Date
Wednesday, March 30th @ 7:15pm
Meeting is free and open to the public

Agenda
7:00 Networking
7:15 Introduction to NYCwireless and Speakers
7:30 Main Presentation: Presentation on IleSansFil’s hotspot program and the Open-Source project WifiDog. Speakers: Benoit Grégoire, Michael Lenczner, and Michelle Kasprzak of IleSansFil
8:45 Discussion and Breakout Sessions

Meeting Location
Bway.net
459 Broadway, 2nd Floor.
About [...]

John Geraci, an NYU ITP Student and one of the co-creators of the Community Hotspot Project was recently interviewed by Wi-Fi Planet about his research project NeighborNode, which is one of the pieces of software that is available on Community Hotspots.