Wireless Toronto
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Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
. Wireless Toronto began in 2005 and has been setting up no-cost public wireless Internet access around the Greater Toronto Area
Greater Toronto Area
The Greater Toronto Area is the largest metropolitan area in Canada, with a 2006 census population of 5.5 million. The Greater Toronto Area is usually defined as the central city of Toronto, along with four regional municipalities surrounding it: Durham, Halton, Peel, and York...
and exploring ways to use Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...
technology to strengthen local community and culture.
Wireless Toronto hotspots
Hotspot (Wi-Fi)
A hotspot is a site that offers Internet access over a wireless local area network through the use of a router connected to a link to an Internet service provider...
are created using Linksys WRT54G
WRT54G
The Linksys WRT54G is a Wi-Fi capable residential gateway from Linksys. The device is capable of sharing Internet connections among several computers via 802.3 Ethernet and 802.11b/g wireless data links.-WRT54G:The original WRT54G was first released in December 2002...
wireless routers running OpenWrt
OpenWrt
OpenWrt is a Linux distribution primarily targeted at routing on embedded devices. It comprises a set of about 2000 software packages, installed and uninstalled via the opkg package management system. OpenWrt can be configured using the command-line interface of BusyBox ash, or the web interface...
and WifiDog
WiFiDog Captive Portal
WiFiDog is an open source embeddable captive portal solution used to build wireless hotspots.WiFiDog consists of two components: the gateway and the authentication server. WiFiDog was created and conceived of by the technical team of Île Sans Fil....
. Currently, the largest hotspot is in the historic St. Lawrence Market
St. Lawrence Market
St. Lawrence Market is one of two major markets in Toronto, the other being Kensington Market.It features two buildings, both on the west side of Front St. East and Jarvis St. Each building holds different purposes:...
in downtown Toronto.
Other free wireless services in the GTA
- The Toronto Public LibraryToronto Public LibraryToronto Public Library is a public library system based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest public library system in Canada and in 2008, had averaged a higher...
(TPL) offers free public wireless access in all of its 99 branches. - The Markham Public LibrariesMarkham Public LibrariesMarkham Public Library is a library system operated by the Town of Markham's municipal government. There are six branches spreading throughout the town, serving about 250,000 residents in Markham...
(MPL) offers free public wireless access in the Angus Glen Library, the Markham Village Library, the Thornhill Community Library, and the Unionville Library - VivaViva (bus rapid transit)Viva is a bus rapid transit service operating in York Region, Ontario, Canada. Viva service is integrated with York Region Transit's local bus service to operate as one regional transit system providing seamless transit service across York Region and connections to northern Toronto.Viva was...
offers free wireless access on its Rapid Transit Vehicles