Our intrepid, on-the-street Wi-Fi sleuth Klaus Ernst has discovered that Penn Station now has some free Wi-Fi courtesy of Amtrak. Wandering through the station, he snagged a screenshot of the login screen from his iPod Touch.
Klaus tells us that the connection is speedy (7Mbps down/1.7 up), and that its available throughout the Amtrak waiting area [...]
Free Wi-Fi in Penn Station!
Published by Dana Spiegel on March 4, 2010 under News
Tags: Amtrak, New York City, Wi-Fi
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International Summit for Community Wireless Networks: August 12-15, 2010 in Vienna, Austria
Published by Dana Spiegel on February 28, 2010 under Events, News
Tags: Community, International, IS4CWN, Wi-Fi
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Those of you involved in building Community Wireless Networks likely have heard of Sascha Meinrath’s International Summit for Community Wireless Networks. He started the event a number of years ago when he was still at UIUC, and its the still the best place to meet and work with community network organizers from around the world.
This [...]
ANNOUNCE: City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community (in SF)
Published by Dana Spiegel on February 8, 2010 under Events, News
Tags: Community, Mobile, Spectrum, Wi-Fi
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Our good friend Kari Gray is helping to create a technology arts festival in San Francisco this year called “City Centered: A Festival of Locative Media and Urban Community“. Kari originally contacted us about Spectropolis, our Wireless Arts festival from a few years ago, wanting to create something similar out on the west coast. What her [...]
CBSMobileZone Shut Down?
Published by Dana Spiegel on January 11, 2010 under News
Tags: CBSMobileZone, Hotspot, NYCwireless, Times Square, Wi-Fi
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Our roving Wi-Fi reporter, Klaus Ernst, has checked out the Times Square area again looking for CBSMobileZone hotspots that were online (though barely functional) a few months ago. Here’s his report:
when trying to connect at a CBSMobileZone lately I keep getting redirected to:
no aptilo terms of service page coming up. Also the “cbsmobilezone.com” Website is gone. [...]
NYCwireless on Advertising Age: Chasing Mobile Audiences Beyond Phones
Published by Dana Spiegel on December 22, 2009 under News
Tags: Hotspot, Mobile, New York City, Wi-Fi
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I was asked to sit on a panel last Thursday about “THE FOUR SCREENS: Everything you had no idea you needed to know but were afraid to ask!” by my friend Bill Sobel at SobelMedia. My fellow panelists represented a great variety of old and new media expertise, and I brought some mobile knowledge to [...]
Update on Times Square Wi-Fi Network
Published by Dana Spiegel on December 7, 2009 under News
Tags: CBSMobileZone, Times Square, Wi-Fi
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Our own Klaus Ernst had a chance to check out the new Times Square Wi-Fi network, and snapped some pictures of the network’s home page (on his iPod Touch) and some of the advertisements in the area:
I finally got connected at 43 and b’way. I tried saturday – no luck. No good at the steps either. Could this [...]
New Hardware for Madison Square Park Hotspot
Published by Dana Spiegel on October 11, 2009 under Hotspots
Tags: Hardware, Hotspot, Wi-Fi
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We recently had the opportunity to upgrade the hotspot at Madison Square Park, an I thought I would take this opportunity to show off our latest hardware. The hardware that we installed is the latest outdoor, all-weather gear from Metrix and Soekris. We use a high-powered Wi-Fi radio that provides wireless service throughout the park, [...]
Another Great Video of Local Kids Using Free Wi-Fi in the Playground
Published by Dana Spiegel on July 31, 2009 under News
Tags: Affordable Housing, CDSC, Community, Hotspot, Installation, New York City, NYCwireless, Wi-Fi
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Here’s some more videos from the new CDSC Hotspot in Clinton Hill:
