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you want a click click that button lookit you watch that one okay until now Jacqueline Walker and her three-year-old daughter Leah couldn't afford to get online on try Cartoon Network oh well the laptop was a gift the installation fees and monthly service charge for internet access were prohibitively expensive let's try www that equipment isn't really useful if you don't have the wireless access to get you out on the internet where you can look for jobs and do job training take classes from home so what free the net likes to do whenever possible is to bring that access in so that the tenants can then apply for those programs so why not two people go down to the sixth floor and put one in either corner on that floor and then we'll put an additional one up here Louis schoenberger and her team of volunteers are installing these donated wireless routers through apartment buildings in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood streets that have been riddled with drugs crime and prostitution over the years these actually act as the source for the wireless signal from here we then installed repeaters that all they need is power and they basically capture that signal and carry it farther the goal is to blanket as much of this low-income neighborhood with a Wi-Fi signal all for free our hope is that the tenants appreciate the service that we're providing and will respect the equipment we'll just hop up to 10 and 11 and then be done with the top it's pretty good for people who can't afford internet after this installation just about every single window you see behind me within a few blocks will have a wireless internet connection the volunteers will then move on to Chinatown and other neighborhoods to provide free Wi-Fi one building at a time in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com