http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/ Engadget Comments for Time Warner Cable enables city-wide WiFi for NYC subscribers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
It's $99/month. Cheaper then the equivalent FIOS plan but less upload, only 5Mbps vs FIOS's 10Mbps.

However, I'm hopeful they will be bumping the service up to the 100Mbps+ that DOCSIS 3.0 can truly handle. However, it's so fast as is, I'm not complaining. Downloading at 6 MBps is simply amazing.]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
Is that $99 for Internet/TV/Phone? Or Internet/TV? Or Internet alone?

I miss living in NY]]>Mar 25th 2010 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
If the reception was good enough, could you theoretically use a cellphone with Skype to make free calls within the city and dump your voice plan??]]>Mar 25th 2010 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
That's exactly what I meant, but then after I posted, I remembered how badly we are screwed by the phone carriers who charge one rate for these 1's and 0's and a different rate for those 1's and 0's.

You should be able to buy a phone with an unlimited data plan, and a by-the-minute voice plan (for those times you are not in a wifi hotspot).]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/So you got out before they "upgraded" their DVR software to "Mystro"... The amount of envy I have for you will surely damn me to hell. ]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/https://www.twcnyc.com/index2.cfm?c=wifi/index

Is it just me or is this coverage terrible? "City-wide WiFi"? I don't think so. You'd have more WiFi access if you just relied on coffee shops and McDonalds and the like.]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Disregard that and see the next comment thread below this one...]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/https://www.twcnyc.com/index2.cfm?c=wifi/index]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/That's the point - TWC customers can now use Cablevisions Optimum-branded hotspots to have much broader coverage than what that map shows. I don't know what the coverage map is, but according to the article there's thousands of them across the boroughs.]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Ohhh. That wasn't very clear to me. TWC should update their map then.]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Here is Cablevision's WiFi coverage map:
http://www.optimum.net/WiFi/Find]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
Yeah, I looked at Optimum's coverage of Manhattan and it is the same...3 spots.
http://www.optimum.net/WiFi/Find

Oddly, the coverage in the Bronx is decent.]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/It looks like they only have hotspots in areas where they actually are the local cable company.
Since they're not in Manhattan, they don't have hotspots there.]]>Mar 25th 2010 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
But that doesn't really help TWC subscribers in Manhattan. Given that there is basically no overlap (by design) between cable companies due to franchise agreements, I don't know how much this is really going to help any TWC subscribers.]]>Mar 25th 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
https://www.twcnyc.com/index2.cfm?c=wifi/index]]>Mar 25th 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/I was thinking the same thing. I was hoping beyond hope that I could get in on some of the free WiFi love going around, but I'm no where near the red zones of CableVision, and you're liable to get run over by a train to access the blue zones of TimeWarner. What a travesty.]]>Mar 25th 2010 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
Good going Optimum/TWC - way to leave out the most important part of NYC!]]>Mar 25th 2010 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
Oh Engadget, further to my post above, your photo shows the spire of the Empire State Building, located squarely in Manhattan which is NOT covered by TWC or Optimum WiFi (except a few tiny locations like boat basin etc.).

I'm just sayin']]>Mar 25th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
I'm having a hard time figuring out who this is beneficial for.]]>Mar 25th 2010 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
I think it is beneficial for Roadrunner customers (outside of manhattan) who live/work/play in the thickets of Optimum Wifi coverage in NJ and the other boroughs. Thats my take anyway. Oh, also if you happen to be sitting in the boat basin in Manhattan.]]>Mar 25th 2010 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
I have Optimum Wi-fi, and I assumed that there was such a huge gap in Manhattan because Cablevision doesn't cover Manhattan.

Hopefully this deal means a change.]]>Mar 25th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
I'm a mere cable subscriber, therefore ineligible.]]>Mar 25th 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/Mar 25th 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
Dont worry, there is essentially no coverage in manhattan anyhow. See my messages above.]]>Mar 25th 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/
So comcast and time warner customers can use wifi on any optimum wifi access point.

Also its been announced that cablevision users can use comcast access points and timewarner access points in nyc area that dont have optimum.]]>Mar 25th 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/25/time-warner-cable-enables-city-wide-wifi-for-nyc-subscribers/]]>Mar 25th 2010 4:20PM