Time Warner Cable enables city-wide WiFi for NYC subscribers

If you're a Time Warner Cable subscriber in the greater NYC area, your life just got a little bit better this morning. TWC has come to an agreement with Cablevision, allowing the former's subscribers to tap in to the city-wide WiFi the latter started rolling out way back in 2008. No, we're not talking unbroken coverage from the Hudson to the East Rivers, but there are thousands of Optimum-branded hotspots all over the boroughs that cover plenty of parks and rail stations across the city. Unfortunately TWC isn't opening this up to all of its subscribers, just NYC-based ones, but if you have the requisite @nyc.rr.com suffix on your e-mail address hit that source link and find yourself a hotspot.

[Photo credit: David Corby]

[ThreeDee912 Posted Mar 25th 2010 10:37PM]

@JoshCano

What's with all the packet sniffing? >_>

[JoshCano Posted Mar 25th 2010 11:52PM]

@ThreeDee912 All im saying is there's going to be unethical hackers having fun with such a HUGE wifi hotspot

[Slick Posted Mar 25th 2010 4:30PM]

That would be so nice - suddenly those xbox 360 laptops sound extremely useful - game anywhere

[mkvl buy some vowels Posted Mar 25th 2010 8:00PM]

This reminds me of Half Life 2.

[Let1me1in Posted Apr 15th 2010 10:34AM]

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