Good news east-enders, The Carrot Common has joined our community wireless network. Coverage favours the central courtyard with the signal reaching into The Big Carrot’s seating area and the organic juice bar that faces Danforth. Drop by next time you cross The Don.
More hotspots: http://auth.wirelesstoronto.ca/hotspots_map.php
Greetings,
While I agree that many of these services are for the public & should be free I also wish to send a warning that we are expanding our use of wireless perhaps without enough wisdom behind it. The science is mounting regarding the health consequences of our increasingly wireless world. Even though wireless is “good for business” I am surprised that the “holistic” Carrot Common, some places in there even selling BioPro chips for wireless devices (so, well aware of the hazards), would agree to be a “hotspot” (actually the term reminds me of a radiograph when cancer is suspected on film).
Are we perhaps jumping the gun and increasing our background radiation too fast and too high for us to adapt? Can we even adapt at all to a constantly changing wave pattern? Many people are not protected using gadgets to help our bodies to translate the waves so the cell doesn’t go into shock and trigger a stress response. Is this really moving forward? Or merely playing into the continuing control of the masses by corporate interests? Beware of the spin out there on the issue, common sense is where I am speaking from, humans really like to get into something until down the road, they find all those deaths really were because of that thing (e.g. smoking, DDT, asbestos, etc).
I think it wise to look at websites like:
http://www.safewireless.org and look closely at the research by Dr. George Carlo on the serious concerns from this hasty move to a wireless age. http://www.cellphone-health.com/blog/
Take a look at Paul Brodeur’s book, The Zapping of America, written in 1975.
When you dig deeper into the issue, there is massive cover up from the wireless industry and the law suits are often settled out of court.
Thanks for hearing me out…
“Nature has not prepared us for this invisible assault.” P. Brodeur
The health impacts of wifi and other radio technologies is a very important issue, and I trust that research is currently being conducted into the long-term effects of RF exposure.
I don’t think Wireless Toronto has an official position on this, but mine is: RF is everywhere, in the form of TV, radio, satellite, mobile phone, wifi and other signals. Adding a new wifi router doesn’t significantly increase (by any measure available to us today) RF levels except for those who spend the majority of their time within 2-3 meters of the router. (This is taken into consideration when we’re installing routers.)
WT’s work is to help make free wifi more widely available. There are hundreds of thousands (or more?) wireless routers installed in the GTA, the large majority for private use, or operated for-profit. Wifi hotspots operated for public use are clearly the most visible, and therefore the easiest targets for attack. Wireless Toronto’s hotspots probably make up on the order of 0.00002% of the wifi routers in the GTA, and wifi appears (according to the research that’s available) seems to be much less of a concern than cellular phone and satellite signals.
I agree that there are health concerns related to this technology, but I politely suggest that your efforts might be better directed at government or industry, rather than a small, all-volunteer community group.
When I go to these wireless safety and cell phone danger website links, prominently featured are advertisements for biochips and private consultations and other expensive stuff for sale. What am I supposed to gather from this?