Joined: 17 Jan 2005 Posts: 3619 Location: Prospect Heights State of Mind
Fri Oct 20, 06 8:43 am EST
Sorry to be so out of touch, but what's the deal with high-speed internet in Prospect Park now? They were awful quiet about the launch. Is free internet such old news that nobody blinked?
Here's a quick piece from the Oct. 7 edition of Brooklyn Papers (with a very odd sidebar):
Also, wireless is apparently coming soon to: Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Fort Greene parks.
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kosherdave The Kosherist
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 988
Fri Oct 20, 06 9:19 am EST
wow. I did not realize it was up already. Thanks for the post!!!
I can't wait to rush home and see if I can pick up a signal from my PPW apartment, maybe I can cancel my time warner and actually afford my rent!
ucastgi Guest
Fri Oct 20, 06 2:03 pm EST
Excuse my digital ignorance, but how do you hook up to it?
On my laptop, it says connce to wireless, so I go there, and I don't see any names to hook up to.
Can someone give a quick 1,2,3 on how to hook up to this wireless entity.
Thanks
Anotherdayinbkln i am number one.
Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 200 Location: Washington Av @ Montgomery
Sat Oct 21, 06 3:51 pm EST
heh, now you can lose your valuable hard drive when getting robbed in the park.
I know the Brooklyn museum plaza is free wifi and the area around it.. ripple has it, etc etc..
I'd much rather use it in a cafe or sheltered area than just on a park bench. Thats great for the people that live around the park tho. I don't get it here, so it must not cross into the Botanical Gardens.
mypasswordwontwork A Media Whore in every sense possible
Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 408 Location: Anywhere, Anytime, Anyone
Sat Oct 21, 06 6:09 pm EST
kosherdave wrote:
wow. I did not realize it was up already. Thanks for the post!!!
I can't wait to rush home and see if I can pick up a signal from my PPW apartment, maybe I can cancel my time warner and actually afford my rent!
;)
i thought most local homes could pick up wireless signals prettily easily from their apartments?
brooklynpotter ceramme ceramma danna
Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 3996 Location: near the square that's a circle
Sat Oct 21, 06 10:06 pm EST
mypasswordwontwork wrote:
kosherdave wrote:
wow. I did not realize it was up already. Thanks for the post!!!
I can't wait to rush home and see if I can pick up a signal from my PPW apartment, maybe I can cancel my time warner and actually afford my rent!
;)
i thought most local homes could pick up wireless signals prettily easily from their apartments?
i'm half a block fromt he park and if it's broadcasting my computer isn't seeing it.
all the networks in my vicinity are password protected, except mine, so everyone steals my bandwith. (don't ask. it's too complicated and, basically, not fixable.) _________________ what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r.
thekumeras Newbie
Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 6 Location: windsor terrace
Sun Oct 22, 06 9:33 pm EST
I'm on PPSW and there's no signal here....
kosherdave The Kosherist
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 988
Mon Oct 23, 06 5:16 pm EST
thekumeras wrote:
I'm on PPSW and there's no signal here....
Yeah, I checked too, I get nothing yet. A lot of local signals that are locked. Someone IN my building. I should find out who has it and see if they wanna split the price!
armchair_warrior retsop cixelsyd
Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 5800 Location: boondocks
Mon Oct 23, 06 5:51 pm EST
i wonder if any cheapos are freezing their arses off to use the free park one in winter time!!!
eKiTeL Newbie
Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Bushwick
Thu Mar 15, 07 8:43 pm EST
you're not going to get the wifi from the picnic house outside of the park, just near the picnic house inside the park, it's not park wide so you're not going to get it just anywhere you happen to be across the street from any part of the park
anyway with such nice weather yesterday I went to give it a try and there was indeed a wifi network there to join, but I only got connected to the router, not actually connected to the internet, I've been having this problem in other places with my MacBook so I'm not sure if it was me or a problem with the router there
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