VanWifi by Shaw

[jlousa]

Surprised this hasn't gotten more press, given my indirect involvement in this I figured I'd post about it.

The City of Vancouver, in partnership with Shaw Communications Inc., has expanded free public Wi-Fi throughout the city, making #VanWiFi one of the largest free public-Wi-Fi networks in North America.

The Granville location is now live with the remaining sites becoming active over the coming months. In addition to the 15 locations requested by the City as part of the phase two #VanWiFi expansion, the Shaw offering also includes an additional 500 plus Wi-Fi locations spread widely throughout the downtown core and surroundingareas, including the following highly-concentrated spaces:
•Broadway (Oak to Cambie)
•Commercial Drive (Venables to 1st Ave)
•Davie Street (Jervis to Burrard)
•Denman Street (from Davie to W. Georgia)
•Downtown Eastside
•Gastown
•Granville Street (from Drake to Cordova)
•Main Street (Broadway to E. 16th Ave)
•Robson Street (from Denman to Burrard)

It also includes 125 Mobi by Shaw Go bike station locations, of which 49 are
currently enabled with #VanWiFi provided by Shaw.

Free public Wi-Fi is also available at all Vancouver Public Library locations, 27 community centres, four outdoor pools, four civic facilities, three public golf courses, three theatres, two marinas and the City Hall campus.

Bandwidth speed will generally be 10 Mbps and there is no limit or cap on data usage. No personal information is required to access the VanWiFi network.
To connect to VanWiFi:
•Select the VanWiFi network name from your device’s Wi-Fi settings menu
• Open your browser and you will be automatically re-directed to the Wi-Fi terms and conditions page. Read and then click the button to accept
the terms and conditions.
•You will be re-directed to the VanWiFi home page(vanwifi.vancouver.ca) and are then connected to the internet.