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The Wireless City

bigfatlamer writes "This week's NY Times City Section has an article (FRRYYY) on wireless access in New York City's busiest park, Bryant Park. The director of the park has installed a free 802.11b network with complete coverage of the park with help from NYC Wireless. From the article: 'With some clever engineering and hardware from Cisco Systems and Intel, the wireless park was born. Just as park users could sit wherever they liked, so too could they gain access where they liked. The eight-megabytes-per-second connection was as free as the sunshine and the green grass.' NYC Wireless is currently working with the Parks Dept. to put similar networks in Madison Square and Tompkins Square Parks. If they could do Prospect Park (3 blocks from my house) life would be perfect." NYCwireless helps those who help themselves...

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  1. Re:Wireless Park In Portland by dailywireless · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oops. How can I remove this redundant post? My fingers slipped!

  2. Eight Megabytes per second, huh? by L0neW0lf · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Umm, I think that was supposed to read "eight mega-BITS per second." I wish I had eight megabytes per second on my wired networks.

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