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The Power over ethernet website which has links to articles and products (check the dates on some of the articles).

A good article about ins and outs of PoE

Don't confuse PoE with Perl Object Environment or Poe Puzzle

Nevertheless it is a good concept with lot of benefits (as well as drawbacks)

Cost savings. PoE significantly reduces the need for electricians to install conduit, electrical wiring, and outlets throughout the facility. In larger installations, these items can be relatively expensive. Consider an installation of 50 or more access points. This requires lots of conduits, outlet boxes, electrical wiring and the time of a qualified electrician. The low costs of deploying PoE compared to traditional electrical circuits leads to worthwhile returns on investment.

Flexible access point locations. With PoE, a wireless LAN designer has greater freedom to locate access points. You don't need to depend on only locations within short distances from AC outlets. The independence from AC outlets also makes it easier to relocate access points in the future if needed to fine-tune RF coverage or increase capacity. Thus, PoE enables companies to more easily maximize the performance of a wireless LAN.

Higher reliability. Systems with fewer wires tend to be more reliable. With WLANs not using PoE, cleaning people may unplug an access point to use its AC outlet to power vacuum and buffing equipment. Electricians rewiring electrical circuits could inadvertently cut power to an access point. PoE eliminates the possibility of situations that disrupt the operation of the network.

Enhanced operational support. Many PoE devices implement SNMP (simple network management protocol), which enables support staff to remotely manage the electrical power supplied to the access points. For example, support staff can disable a PoE-enabled access point by shutting off its power after detecting a breach of security. The temporary disabling of the access point can protect against an intruder from continuing unauthorized access to corporate systems. Other SNMP-based features enable the monitoring of the condition and consumption of power, which enhances the ability to ensure smooth and efficient network operations.

Simpler international development. For manufacturers, PoE offers the benefit of the vendor not needing to provide different power cords for various countries. This not only helps keep the cost of access points done -- it's one less piece of equipment that installers need to worry about

To help fill in the basic gaps, go take a look at Building Wireless Community Networks, Wireless Hacks, as well as the larger city and national groups Seattle Wireless and NYC Wireless. Go to NYC Wireless for the tools and the user groups, go to Seattle Wireless to see if you want to add affiliate services.

Hills or a maze of skysrapers...each have line of sight problems. There are plenty of answers out there and it doesn't take high end equipment or experts to pull this off...though it does take time, tweaking, and a reasonable amount of planning.

Of course, no one ever use consumer-grade equipment to setup wireless coverage to a city. Why that would be unthinkable!

Now that's a fun way to add Wi-Fi to your local coffeehouse--slip a m0n0wall Soekris and a DSL modem inside an old portable radio and put it on the countertop.

I think we'd want to have some weighted rules for judging a good "sympathetic" installation (highest first):

1. If the radio works, it should continue to work (do no harm)
2. As minimal damage to the original casing as possible
3. The wi-fi unit is easily removed to return item to an old style radio
4. Operation simple for the user (plug/unplug)
5. Network indicator lights visible (through the mesh?)

Rob

P.S. For do-it-yourselfers, check out ebay's 1930's radios and NYCwireless's primer on setting up community nodes

You can easily run the Pebble Linux distro on these. The easy way is to mount a CF card on a Linux box and build a bootable filesystem there. The Pebble docs walk you through it, piece of cake.

Since you can get 1 GB flash cards for pretty cheap, and Pebble even with added bells & whistles fits handily in 256 MB, you can run dead silent. No fans, no water cooling. Power consumption is somewhere south of 10 watts according to the soekris docs.

Of course, if you are running a mail server and/or web server, you might want an actual hard disk to be able to have many read/write cycles without destroying your CF card - you can use a microdrive CF form factor disk with no problem.

My understanding is that Soekris' support for *BSD is better than for Linux, but I've had no problem running Pebble on mine.

You can easily run the Pebble Linux distro on these. The easy way is to mount a CF card on a Linux box and build a bootable filesystem there. The Pebble docs walk you through it, piece of cake.

Since you can get 1 GB flash cards for pretty cheap, and Pebble even with added bells & whistles fits handily in 256 MB, you can run dead silent. No fans, no water cooling. Power consumption is somewhere south of 10 watts according to the soekris docs.

Of course, if you are running a mail server and/or web server, you might want an actual hard disk to be able to have many read/write cycles without destroying your CF card - you can use a microdrive CF form factor disk with no problem.

My understanding is that Soekris' support for *BSD is better than for Linux, but I've had no problem running Pebble on mine.

Your example is insightful in the realm of free Wifi in the coffee shop.

But there are more than a few APs being left open by non-commercial providers. Since the article is about New York, NYCWireless is a good example.

Or you could get a Soekris 4501 and case, then install a really small linux distro like Pebble linux and have a homemade solid state firewall/router in a really small form factor.

http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/

The idea of line of sight doesn't need to go over amateur bands. In fact, doing so would be a bad idea for many reasons including transmission speed (9600?!?!?!) and the part 97 rules which don't allow for any kind of commercial activity.

However, there have been many such links done over long distances that used standard 802.11 gear and highly directional antennas. Here in NYC we've done many such links through the nycwireless project. A good source of info would be the Personal Telco site. Other projects to take a look at would be the 310km WiFi link at The Swedish Space Corporation, even though that's probably way over budget ;). See here for a slightly out of date (1998) mini how-to on a Linux wireless router for a 5 mile link. Also just try google for pertinent info. All of this is, of course, a moot point if you don't have line of sight to anything. What about a regular telephone line? Cell Phone?

Good luck with this, post back to let us know what you did and how it worked!
-Derek, KC2JKD

You ask what the best way to network a neighborhood. Why ask without telling us about the arrangement of the houses. Density is everything for determining the best answers. Needless to say this is complex question. Technologies change. Spend your money on reusable parts and skimp on expensive technically sensitive parts.

If the houses can be clustered around (100 Meters from) a neighborhood switch in a coms locker, use cat5e or better for IP and voice services. TV is cheaper on coax. This way the neighborhood can use whatever is cheapest for the BaseT IP connection. If the density of houses is lower, use Cablemodems or fiber to each house from one central coms locker. Fiber and CMTS/Cable Modems are expensive for the bandwidth.

My recommendation:
Build a coms locker for each 100Meter radius cluster of houses. Connect the lockers with a backbone of fiber and coax for TV. Connect the houses with Cat5e and coax for TV to the lockers. Lockers will need electrical power for Gigabit switches and coax-TV signal boosters. At the lockers, use IP switches to avoid sniffers, no firewalls or wifi because someone will have to maintain it. Put these burdens on the home owners. The lockers should require no maintenance and recover gracefully from power outages.

Today 100baseTX (100Mb) hardware is cheapest. Tomorrow Gigabit 1000baseT (1000Mb) hardware could be much better with future lower price. With $5 10/100Mb nics or $30 Gigabit nics on PriceWatch.com, I would go Gigabit, but all the gigabit hubs and switches are more expensive too. Gigabit switches at $75 vs. 10/100 switches at $40. Cat5e is $54 per 1000 feet (304Meters) of riser jacket. Labor is expensive, and replacing 100Mb hardware later is somewhat expensive, so go gigabit now.

Digging conduits is expensive and dangerious but much more secure and much bigger bandwidth than the alternatives. Conduit is adaptable and has long 30+ year life span. Make sure all utilites (gas, electric, telephone, cableTV, water, sewer) are documented before trenching. Use a walk-behind trencher to place conduit. Use conduit because you can add and replace low voltage wire, fibre, coax, without re-digging trenches. Running 3 Cat5e drops to each house will allow 1 cable for 4 telephone lines, 1 IP network connection, and 1 extra cable (backup, more bandwidth or telephone lines). Since the labor is the expensive part, put the spair/extra/unassigned cable in and conduit from each house to the locker.

Hanging wires from telephone poles is cheaper, but lightning, storms, political aprroval and ugliness are very big problems. Consider power over Ethernet for any 100Mb remote hubs and repeaters. I don't believe PoE will work with Gigabit, because Gigabit uses all 8 conductors where 10/100Mb uses only 4 conductors.

These conduits need to arrive in each house at a demarcation point, typically a coms panel. This coms panel is where all the homes coax and cat5 drops connect. Here is where the hubs switches and routers should be placed. Place the tv coax splitter here as well. Leviton sells a very expensive ($100) home coms panel. It is quick it that is what you want. I would rather take the time and crimp rj45 plugs on the wires so that they go straight into the home network switches. If you have the money and less time, buy a 110 punch down block and buy your patch cables for connecting blocks to the home network switch.

Home network security is very important. Use a firewall appliance to connect your conduit datapipe to your home network at your coms panel. Unfortunately there is not a gigabit version of the D-link Di-604 10/100 broadband router/firewall. This makes it more difficult to secure each homes gigabit data network economically. Centralized neighborhood security is expensive and t

I want to hack my D-Link DI-604 Router, but I cant find a How-to that will help me learn.
Can any point out a "how-to hack an appliance router"?
I spent a ton of time tweeking the settings with the nice but slow HTML interface, so I want to be able to upload ip and domain block rules as text files.
I want to tweak the from and subject strings on the logs emailed to me.
I want to learn if PoE works with my router.
I want consider changes and tweeks to the kernal. Or changes to the HTML interface.
Any one know where to start reading?

MacOS refugee, paper MCSE, Linux wanna-ba

Power over Ethernet hacks (PoE) are very cool.
Ralph Fowler PoE hacked Dlink DWL-900AP+. Tons of photos and some brave soldering.

MacOS refugee, paper MCSE, Linux Wanna-be

Over Christmas, my D-Link wireless rotuer (B) died.

I had a Soekris Net4521 and a D-Link DWL-650 wireless B card laying around.

The Net4521 is a 133 MHz AMD Elan (486 compat) system with 64 Mb of RAM, a CF slot, 2 10/100 ethernet ports, a mini-PCI slot and 2 PCMCIA/Cardbus slots. It is small (10" x 6" x 1/2") and not very expensive ($235 for 1).

Pebble Linux is a Debian-based distro designed for the Soekris line of boxes. It includes NoCat Auth, Mad WiFi and HostAP tools for making your own WAP.

You'll need a minimum of 64 Mb CF card to load it on, though it boots read-only and runs in RAM. You'll also need a wireless card that supports Host AP mode.

The whole setup cost me less than $300, and it is more than just a WAP. It is a real linux box with SSH, auditing tools, logs, etc.

Soekris also makes the VPN 1211, which is a mini-PCI crypto accelerator. From what I've researched, OpenSSL supports it for offloading SSL/TLS transactions. I'll be testing this out over the rest of the week.

The Net4521 also has a hardware watchdog, for resetting itself in case of problems AND supports power over Ethernet (802.3af) for those hard-to-find-juice locations.

If you're really ambitious, plug in a B/G card and an A card (second PCMCIA slot) and provide the whole spectrum of coverage. Let me know if you find a G or A card that Linux can put into HostAP mode, though.

Good luck.

-Charles Hill

The end result of this is a small integrated PC with no moving parts, and mounts it's file-system read-only so no worries about corruption, with a built-in access point. These work great, and are a bit larger than the size of a VHS casette.

I've deployed a number of these, and they are rock solid. Plus, they have advanced routing capabilities thanks to Linux, and the ability to block infected or abusive users from re-associating with the AP.

As far as going with 802.11 a or g... You must be pulling in some pretty mighty bandwidth to need to use something faster than 802.11g. Pebble includes "MadWiFi", a driver for some a/g cards, but I haven't used it.

Sean

Check out Pebble Linux which has mesh support as well as secure login. It is developed by the NYC wireless guys and was featured in the Linux Journal (Sep. 2003 Issue).

Dunno about everything else, but that tinfoil hat and a can of pringles will help with your office and neighborhood wireless hacking, as this article explains.

Pebble Linux

...this maybe? Very nice POE converter by NYC wireless. Tested out to 250 feet. Not exactly the same thing but still cool, and proves you can put useful power in the pairs without causing issues.

Here is some info by POE from NYCWireless...

Now just give me wireless repeater base stations powered by tesla coils and I'll be in heaven. :-)

So, there are a couple of people who have schemes for running power over cat5. As long as you pick 2 of the 4 unused wires, this isn't really a problem. I run my phone through the blue pair on the cat5 coming into my room- means I only have one cable snaking through the hall. While marking it certainly wouldn't be a bad idea, I'd say anyone who unplugs my beer and tries to plug the cable into a laptop deserves whatever they get.

they could probably ask the ppl who set up bryant park in manhattan.

You can also check out nycwireless.net mailing list for more discussions on this.

L

You can also check out nycwireless.net mailing list for more discussions on this.

L

Here's a useful how-to on powering wireless base stations using Power-Over-Ethernet (POE). Several wireless vendors already sell POE kits for wireless APs. Here's a POE kit for the AirPort.

Power+Ethernet over one wire is a great combination for settting up APs, because many of the interesting places to put a wireless access point (e.g., in the attic, by the pool, in the middle of the ceiling) may not have a power outlet nearby, or you may simply not want to run two sets of wires (AC power + ethernet) to the location.

-Mark

http://www.nycwireless.net/ - lots of info on how to set up a secure, shared public access point
http://www.bawug.org/ - the most technically adept wireless user group. Their mailing list is worth its weight in gold.

Good luck.

San fransisco, Seattle, New York, Atlanta, Adelaide, Sydney, London, Rotterdam, And more

Our mission is simple. We like this wireless technology, there is a huge potential in free community networks, as idealised by www.communitywireless.org We will research and make this technology available to everyone at the lowest cost we can. Wherever possible, this will be at the cost of parts. In other words, we're working totally for free here, even charity workers get paid! Where required, we will also help by providing live prototype networks and application development. Our primary interest is simply in providing the enabling technology to make this dream work. All the plans for building or modifying all our units will eventually be available as will the software itself. We hope to distribute this under an opensource license so that others can improve our work.

Our mission is simple. We like this wireless technology, there is a huge potential in free community networks, as idealised by www.communitywireless.org We will research and make this technology available to everyone at the lowest cost we can. Wherever possible, this will be at the cost of parts. In other words, we're working totally for free here, even charity workers get paid! Where required, we will also help by providing live prototype networks and application development. Our primary interest is simply in providing the enabling technology to make this dream work. All the plans for building or modifying all our units will eventually be available as will the software itself. We hope to distribute this under an opensource license so that others can improve our work.

Yes, they allow outbound:
node faq

Is it secure? No! Wireless Ethernet is insecure by default. Any user on the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) can spy on unencrypted traffic from other wireless users. Wired connections are generally more secure when communicating with other servers. Users are advised to use SSL to connect to web pages and mail hosts, SSH instead of telnet whenever possible, and VPNs (virtual private networks) for all other data to ensure privacy and security. You may see literature saying that the 802.11b standard includes provisions for optional 40- or 128-bit link-level encryption over the air, however, current implementations require the encryption key to be shared by all users of the wireless LAN, effectively eliminating the usefulness of this security feature in an open network environment.

Also fyi: How to find access

Yes, they allow outbound:
node faq

Is it secure? No! Wireless Ethernet is insecure by default. Any user on the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) can spy on unencrypted traffic from other wireless users. Wired connections are generally more secure when communicating with other servers. Users are advised to use SSL to connect to web pages and mail hosts, SSH instead of telnet whenever possible, and VPNs (virtual private networks) for all other data to ensure privacy and security. You may see literature saying that the 802.11b standard includes provisions for optional 40- or 128-bit link-level encryption over the air, however, current implementations require the encryption key to be shared by all users of the wireless LAN, effectively eliminating the usefulness of this security feature in an open network environment.

Also fyi: How to find access

Why not get someone to sponsor the network without banners? Like the city or a deep pocket local corporation? You could use something like nocat to force users to see the name of sponsor and get them to agree to the AUP when they startup. But after that access would be unfettered. This model has worked for NYCWireless.

Why is this even news? Wireless internet access that you have to pay for? Hasn't that been around for a while. There's also been free wireless internet access in other cities for a while, here's one in NYC http://www.nycwireless.net I haven't gone down there with my laptop and wireless network card yet but I'm sure it's probably very fast. Although you probably can't do anything fun (like share warez) because they would probably block certain ports (or wonder what this one person is using all the bandwidth for.) The NYC Wireless site has links to other places for free wireless internet access also. There's also people who just setup there own wireless internet access for the block or neighborhood. Letting everyone share there connection, for free. I guess it's news because it's going to be 100sq km, but I can drive across Manhatten and stay online the whole time, there are some huge wireless networks available already.

Here is a stream discussing the issue on the local Portland news. KGW
The Personal Telco Project - PTP Homepage and the PTP mailing list Archive

Here is a link about using wireless mobile at Starbucks. Here is a Wall Street article about it, and a brief intro. Here's an article praising the idea.

Realistically, why bother?

If the FBI is concerned with the unauthorized use of wireless networks, they'd be better off cracking down on Starbucks, airport coffee bars, or even Bryant Park, NY.

Frankly, I'm surprised people still bother to hack from home. If I was looking to break into a guarded system, the FIRST thing I'd do would be to on a casual jaunt for a warhacking hotspot. The explosion of public 802.11 spaces opens up completely unprecedented possibilities for physical and network anonymity. The REAL question becomes what happens when someone actually uses this type of vulnerability to cause real and substantive damage to someone. Is Starbucks criminally negligant when one of their network users DOSes the DOD?

If the FBI wants to get companies to lock-down 802.11 services, all they need to do is remind firms of their legal liability for "unauthorized" uses of unguarded 802.11 networks.

I think he was referring to the link at the bottom of the article that says it seems they are skimming these people's names off public databases instead of finding people who are actually doing it through their own access logs and their own investigation.
BTW, the replies to the linked comment above are interesting too.

Rolling out a community network is a great idea and probably any network geek's dream. But DSL, oh my! Many wireless community networks have proved 802.11b is the perfect technology for this. These guys in Seattle are trying to cover the whole city and IMHO they're very likely to succeed.

So you want to roll out a network in a small city ? UseNoCat Auth for authentication, connect everything to the net, and already you'll be able to read slashdot while sitting in the middle of the street.

Stuff like this is already happening, in some form, in several cities around the US. Check out Seattle Wireless, Austin Wireless, NYC Wireless, and FreeNetworks ...

I can add NYCWireless to the list. Great source for those of us in the city.

This is happening in NYC as well, only there are non-for-profit groups such as NYCwireless working to provide FREE access in public spaces throughout the NYC metropolitan area. If you're in NYC, check out this Community Network Node Database (also available for other major US cities.)

This is happening in NYC as well, only there are non-for-profit groups such as NYCwireless working to provide FREE access in public spaces throughout the NYC metropolitan area. If you're in NYC, check out this Community Network Node Database (also available for other major US cities.)

Check out NYC Wireless. They started with just a node or two. Don't know how many now, but I hear it's going well. They also have plenty of links to other resources and HOWTOs.

AirSnort or similar wireless packet capturing tool to capture inbound/outbound traffic.

Hacking/port scanning the Net -- You could hack and go virtually undetected. Sure they can trace your MAC address, but there are ways around this using virtual MAC addresses, etc.

Hacking/port scanning others in the theater -- HackerA finds an open share on VictimB's Windows laptop. Or HackerA is able to hack it because VictimB doesn't have the latest patches. HackerA now has the potential to get VictimB's entire hardrive, including Temporary Internet Files, cookies (chocolate chip of course), tax/financial data, cached passwords, and any other personal information that is stored on it. I'm sure this could create liability issues here for the theater (see site below).

These are just a few potential problems, I am sure someone more creative than myself could come up with a bunch more.

There are plenty of "open" wireless initiatives out there. You can check out NYC Wireless for some suggestions on how best to secure an "open" wireless network. They have some good suggestions and even free software you can download and use on your wireless gateway (*nix NAT box) which will require the users to agree to an AUP prior to using the service.

But these types of open wireless environments still rely heavily on the users being innocent for the most part.

Snowdog

All I'm saying is that by the time that I by the time I graduate from college, I better have some type of broadband connection for relatively cheap, or FREE!. I would probably kill myself if I have to go back to 56K from the 155 Mbps that I have been spoiled with for the past 3 years.

All I'm saying is that by the time that I by the time I graduate from college, I better have some type of broadband connection for relatively cheap, or FREE!. I would probably kill myself if I have to go back to 56K from the 155 Mbps that I have been spoiled with for the past 3 years.

There have been a number of insightful or informative posts on this thread such as firewire roughly being serialized SCSI (true)or bandwidth management of Ethernet being poor compared to Ethernet. There was a sub post about firewire and USB being able to power devices where Ethernet can't. This is partly true but Power-over-Ethernet is a reality as well since Lucent and Symbol offer it in some access points.

There also is a clustering technology for SMTP from an Italian university( the name and link escape me) that uses a modified IP stack for the nodes to communicate on using standard Ethernet equipment. The controlling node also has a NIC the uses "real" IP on Ethernet to talk to the world/Internet. Using something like the modified IP stack would allow you to control and manage devices for storage, etc., without having to manage firewalling separate from how you do it otherwise(another post talked about the horrors of, say, assigning an IP to your iPod) since it isn't capable of talking to the world.

There would probably be a need for a slight alteration to talk this modified IP (maybe not) for dhcpd to manage devices. Use some of your own paramaters to pass to the clients (storage devices, etc.) for setting up arrays or what have you or use some mod of SNMP for management or both.

Power the devices with the aforementioned Power-over-Ethernet from the Ethernet switch. This switch would not be your usual off the shelf switch but if a vendor were selling this sort of offering, naturally they have them made up.

So what if the bandwidth management isn't as good as serialized SCSI -- there should be less effort to repurposing existing work and in some cases probably not having to reengineer any software.

Before someone says, "hey, look, here's another Linux geek wanting to install it on his toaster", stop and think about it. Embedded software on remote devices communicating over Ethernet and passing data that cannot be DOS'd (use multiple gateways plus the storage network stays up since it isn't directly attacked) but can be managed by any PC you want: add another NIC to it, bind it to the modified IP stack, feed it unpowered Ethernet and uses your management apps/edit .conf files.

Like my subject, I think this is a potentially elegant solution.

This looks really doable

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NYCwireless has been very busy working with the affected businesses and organizations in New York. We apologize if we do not respond to every email offering support.

Everyone is welcome to use the latest public NYCwireless access point at Tompkins square park or other NYCwireless locations, especially those affected by the WTC attacks.

Thanks,

--Terry Schmidt
NYCwireless

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• Company Name
• Address & Cross Streets
• email address and phone number if working or other forms of contact
• # of floors in building
• # of floor you are on
• How many users / computers are disconnected
• Bandwidth Needs if know
• What your "Line of Sight" is like, include a link to a webpage with digital pictures of you line of sight if possible.

Email requests for assistance to wtcreliefrequest@nycwireless.net
Please only send direct request from the affected organizations and individuals.

If you have resources and would like to contribute, the following would be useful:

• Wireless Building to Building LAN bridges
• 802.11 Access Points & Cards
• Antennas (Yagi, Sector, and Omni) and mounting hardware
• Cables, Connectors and Arrestors
• Locations in NYC area with available internet bandwidth
• Locations in NYC area for antenna placements with good line of sight
• Individuals that can install wireless hardware
• Individuals that can install antennas
• Individuals that can provide networking support
• Individuals who can provide VoIP solutions
• VoIP hardware

Email offers to wtcreliefoffer@nycwireless.net

NYCwireless has been very busy working with the affected businesses and organizations in New York. We apologize if we do not respond to every email offering support.

Everyone is welcome to use the latest public NYCwireless access point at Tompkins square park or other NYCwireless locations, especially those affected by the WTC attacks.

Thanks,

--Terry Schmidt
NYCwireless

• Name
• Company Name
• Address & Cross Streets
• email address and phone number if working or other forms of contact
• # of floors in building
• # of floor you are on
• How many users / computers are disconnected
• Bandwidth Needs if know
• What your "Line of Sight" is like, include a link to a webpage with digital pictures of you line of sight if possible.

Email requests for assistance to wtcreliefrequest@nycwireless.net
Please only send direct request from the affected organizations and individuals.

If you have resources and would like to contribute, the following would be useful:

• Wireless Building to Building LAN bridges
• 802.11 Access Points & Cards
• Antennas (Yagi, Sector, and Omni) and mounting hardware
• Cables, Connectors and Arrestors
• Locations in NYC area with available internet bandwidth
• Locations in NYC area for antenna placements with good line of sight
• Individuals that can install wireless hardware
• Individuals that can install antennas
• Individuals that can provide networking support
• Individuals who can provide VoIP solutions
• VoIP hardware

Email offers to wtcreliefoffer@nycwireless.net

NYCwireless has been very busy working with the affected businesses and organizations in New York. We apologize if we do not respond to every email offering support.

Everyone is welcome to use the latest public NYCwireless access point at Tompkins square park or other NYCwireless locations, especially those affected by the WTC attacks.

Thanks,

--Terry Schmidt
NYCwireless