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Jul 24, 2007 6:58 am US/Eastern

Central Park Wireless Network Gets Speed Boost

Slideshow: New York City Landmarks

NEW YORK (CBS) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Central Park's Sheep Meadow is the first in the city to get high-speed wireless Internet service. (File photo)

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Next time you find yourself in Central Park's Sheep Meadow, feel free to hop onto the Information Superhighway at full speed.

Park officials say the wireless Internet service in that part of the park has been upgraded to 15 megabits per second. Previously, the Internet service ran at 3 mbps

That means that up to 70 laptop users can download movies or music without a noticeable loss of speed.

Seventeen parks in the city offer wireless service, but Central Park's Sheep Meadow is the first to go high speed.