LinkNYC: Public Wi-Fi 300 Mbps active in New York, Free!
LinkNYC was launched in beta in the city of New York. It is a public Wi-Fi service that connects users with Gigabit hotspot at impressive speeds.
” Who would have thought that a free service would offer these quality standards? ” Is the question that arises printing overseas after the first tests of the new service of public Wi-Fi launched in the past few hours in New York. LinkNYC will connect the American city with a variety of Wi-Fi hotspots Gigabit and is finally active even if in beta. He stunned right now for its transfer speeds, although this may change soon.
LinkNYC currently boasts few users and is very likely to engage hotspot uncongested and exploit to the maximum transfer speed of nearby service potential. The numbers are literally afraid: 280 Mbps download and 318 Mbps upload well, as in the case recorded by Devindra Hardawar of Engadget immediately after plugging his iPhone for the first time to the public service. To be reckoned also that LinkNYC comes in a completely free.
It is clear that the service suffers from all the problems typical of Wi-Fi connections. The signal quality degrades with the move away from hotspots, and with it the speed of data transfer. The Engadget benchmark was carried a short distance from an access point connected to a few terminals simultaneously, and it was just a few meters away to get results less astounding. A few meters away the transfer reaches 70 Mbps. That number goes far beyond than the more common connections pay offers.
The service manages to keep autonomously thanks to the publicity that will be played continuously on newsstands, or locations where the access points are installed. Here comes the painful part: the company also stated that it could also take advantage of other sources of monetization, such as sharing, completely anonymous, some users browsing data. But New Yorkers through these citizens cannot be identified in any way, with all the data released to third parties that will be completely separated from sensitive information.
LinkNYC is an ongoing evolution project was launched today and is still relatively rare within the perimeter of the US cities. The kiosks installed during the beta are only four locations precise, with further expansion expected after the test periods. The company offers two different modes of connection, Free and private, although the latter is only compatible with devices that support the Hotspot 2.0 technology.
