Wireless Toronto is a volunteer not-for-profit

community wireless network Wireless community networks or wireless community projects or simply community networks, are non-centralized, self-managed and collaborative networks organized in a grassroots fashion by communities, non-governmental organizations and cooperatives ...

Toronto Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...

. Wireless Toronto began in 2005 with the goal of setting up no-cost public wireless Internet access around the

Greater Toronto Area The Greater Toronto Area, commonly referred to as the GTA, includes the Toronto, City of Toronto and the regional municipality, regional municipalities of Regional Municipality of Durham, Durham, Regional Municipality of Halton, Halton, Regional ...

and exploring ways to use

Wi-Fi Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for Wireless LAN, local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by ...

technology to strengthen local community and culture. At its peak, Wireless Toronto hotspots served over 1000 connections per day at 38 individual locations. Wireless Toronto

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are created using Linksys

WRT54G The Linksys WRT54G Wi-Fi series is a series of Wi-Fi–capable residential gateways marketed by Linksys, a subsidiary of Cisco, from 2003 until acquired by Belkin in 2013. A ''residential gateway'' connects a local area network (such as a home net ...

or Motorola WR850G wireless routers running

OpenWrt OpenWrt (from ''open wireless router'') is an open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux kernel, Linux, primarily used on Embedded system, embedded devices to Router (computing), route network traffic. The main components ...

and WifiDog.

Other free wireless services in the GTA

* The

Toronto Public Library Toronto Public Library (TPL) is a public library system in Toronto, Ontario. It is the largest public library system in Canada, and in 2023 had averaged a higher circulation per capita than any other public library system internationally, making i ...

(TPL) offers free public wireless access in all of its 99 branches. * The Markham Public Libraries (MPL) offers free public wireless access in the Angus Glen Library, the Markham Village Library, the Thornhill Community Library, and the Unionville Library *

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offers free wireless access on its Rapid Transit Vehicles
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offers a free Wi-Fi hotspot map * The TTC offers free, ad supported wireless service at many of its stations

References

External links

Wireless Toronto SiteWireless Toronto BlogWireless Toronto Locations MapToronto Public Library Free Wireless Internet Access Service

Organizations based in Toronto {{Toronto-stub

Other free wireless services in the GTA

See also

References

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