May 28, 2008
Grand Central Wireless Terminal
Grand Central Terminal will now feature its own Wi-Fi Internet access to those waiting in the Station Masters Office, one of the few places one is still allowed to sit down at the terminal without being told to get up and move along. The new wireless service will allow as many as 60 users online at a time and should prove an invaluable amenity for commuters to check or send off emails before and after getting off trains. The Station Masters Office is restricted to ticket-holding passengers.
If one has never been before, the Station Masters Office is located in the western corridor off the Main Hall, near the New York Transit Museum Annex. It is now home to many of the long benches that once filled Vanderbilt Hall and features three wall mural painted by Roberto Juarez.
Of course, Wi-Fi at GCT could be terrible news for those who are claiming a physical allergy to the modern convenience. As one man told ABC News,
"If I walk into a room or building that has Wi-Fi, my most immediate sign is that the front of my right thigh goes numb," said Arthur Firstenberg, 57, of Santa Fe, N.M. "If I don't leave, I'll get short of breath, chest pains and the numbness will spread."That does not sound good. Maybe a cure will be discovered someday, so as to avoid terrifying incidences of mass paralysis during rush hour.
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Oh God, more loiterers.
I call shenanigans on these people "allergic" to WiFi...
yeah, no proof for that wifi guy, in fact, he's so crazy he has his own wiki entry:
He claims that he was unable to continue his schooling due to electromagnetic hypersensitivity, which he attributes to diagnostic dental x-rays.
Since the onset of his illness, he has argued in numerous publications that there exists a massive and world-wide conspiracy, in which "the telecommunications industry has suppressed damaging evidence about its technology since at least 1927." The World Health Organization maintains, "no convincing scientific evidence that the weak RF signals from base stations and wireless networks cause adverse health effects."
Sixty? Lame.
You don't need a ticket to get into the station masters office or one to sit, its just a rule to eject hobos and skels by cops.
i hope they have 1 minute dhcp lease times otherwise that 60 user limit is going to be a nightmare
cause 60 slots is totally going to be more than enough for the demand...
The place is a little less traveled now because they're fixing the bathrooms there.