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It's funny how you read all these stories about how WiFi is the future, and about how it's here now, and there are all these WAP's all over the place. I went to San Francisco expecting to have like an all you can eat WiFi bar all over the city. After all, it has been voted one of the most wired cities in the world. I guess that has no bearing on the "un-wired".
Needless to say I was disappointed. Everywhere I went, I tried it.
Ritzy downtown Hyatt? No. . .
Union Square? 'fraid not. . .
Any number of restaurants in the city? Nope. . .
Starbucks? Yeah, but it was a T-Mobile PAYSpot. . .
Borders? Ditto on the T-Mobile. . .
In short, it appears that San Francisco is no more wired than my hometown of 90,000 people.
I do have some good news though. Coming back, I was forced to fly through Pittsburgh, and the airport there? Free WiFi. Amazing. . . Steeltown has more wireless access than the "Most Wired" city in the US.
Blahh. . .
I was just in Seattle and found the same thing.. only pay wireless in my hotel , T-Mobile at Starbucks and Wayport in the Airport... had to go the Red Carpet Club.
I was recently in Santiago, Chile and was amazed at how many hotspots I found. The airport is complete wireless and my brother was using his mac laptop with no prob. I didnt have my E805 yet but I am sure it would have worked great.
I am still in the process of looking for a FREE program that finds open networks so i can walk around nyc and find access. YAY.
The e805 has a WiFi detector pre-installed that works great. As far as wireless in hotels- if the hotel has wired internet get the new Apple Airport Express to create your own network in the room. Fits in yout shirt pocket and the most innovative product I've seen in a while. www.apple.com/airportexpress
__________________ James Kendrick Microsoft MVP - Tablet PCwww.jkontherun.com Lockergnome contributor- Mobile Lifestyle...using mobile devices since they weighed 30 lbs.
I stayed i the San Francisco Hilton 2 months ago which had Wifi, but only in the hotel reception. (Paying, I think it was 5$ a day)
Afterwards I moved to Marriot in San Jose which didn't have Wifi.
At the conference (GDC2004) there was free Wifi available for attendees which made me very happy.
As I live in Belgium and wanted to stay in touch, I was pretty happy with the connectivity.
Problem of course remains that like here in Belgium, the hot spots which are public are paying hot spots.
Others are just badly configured. But, I did some wifiscanning today here in my neighbourhood and discovered that 25 out of 30 private wifi networks were not protected.
My suggestion: Find a hotspot with wififofum, sit down and enjoy ;p
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