Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:10:09 -0700, "RG" wrote:


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
.. .
When you guys are out and about with your laptops, do you pay for
wi-fi?

How does that work?

I'm sort of new to public wi-fi, and don't really have a good feel as to
where the free hot spots are vs. where you have to pay to log on.
Therefore, I took a different approach and subscribed to Verizon's wireless
Broadband Access service. It's a bit expensive, but it's got good speed and
you don't have to worry about whether you're in range of a hot spot and what
the costs might be. I'll use traditional wi-fi when I can see that I'm in a
free hot spot, but the Verizon deal is a great fallback. Plus, it allows me
internet and email access at the lake.

I'm just curious how it works. Like how do you know if there even is
a hot spot? Can you log in to anybody's network? How do you pay if
it's a non-free access?

Just curious.

Tom, there's software that sniffs out hot spots for you, like this:
http://www.tucows.com/preview/353008