{"id":20918,"date":"2016-01-19T12:48:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/linknycs-free-gigabit-wi-fi-is-here-and-it-is-glorious"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:15:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:15:29","slug":"linknycs-free-gigabit-wi-fi-is-here-and-it-is-glorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/linknycs-free-gigabit-wi-fi-is-here-and-it-is-glorious","title":{"rendered":"LinkNYC\u2019s free gigabit Wi-Fi is here, and it is glorious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/linknycs-free-gigabit-wi-fi-is-here-and-it-is-glorious.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m standing on the corner of 15th Street and Third Avenue in New York City, and I\u2019m freezing. But my iPhone is on fire. After connecting to one of LinkNYC\u2019s gigabit wireless hotspots, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/11\/17\/nyc-links\/\">futuristic payphone replacements<\/a> that went live for beta testing this morning, I\u2019m seeing download speeds of 280 Mbps and upload speeds of 317 Mbps (based on Speedtest\u2019s benchmark). To put it in perspective, that\u2019s around ten times the speed of the average American home internet connection (which now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/02\/fcc-broadband-speed-report\/\">sits at 31 Mbps<\/a>). And to top it all off, LinkNYC doesn\u2019t cost you a thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/01\/19\/linknyc-gigabit-wifi-hands-on\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m standing on the corner of 15th Street and Third Avenue in New York City, and I\u2019m freezing. But my iPhone is on fire. After connecting to one of LinkNYC\u2019s gigabit wireless hotspots, the futuristic payphone replacements that went live for beta testing this morning, I\u2019m seeing download speeds of 280 Mbps and upload speeds [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,15,418,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-habitats","category-internet","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68807,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20918\/revisions\/68807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}