From: "Neil Waldhauer" Received: from mxout3.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.167] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 336717 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:07:27 -0400 Received: from mxin2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.176]) by mxout3.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GKzvv-000CKP-2p for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:07:24 -0400 Received: from mail.cruzio.com ([63.249.95.37]) by mxin2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GKzvs-000PtP-Vu for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:07:21 -0400 Received: from 192.168.46.68 (dsl3-63-249-86-58.cruzio.com [63.249.86.58]) by mail.cruzio.com with SMTP id k86G7Ht1005883 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 09:07:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200609061607.k86G7Ht1005883@mail.cruzio.com> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 09:07:11 -0700 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Hotspots: Play-for-Fee vs Play-for-Free MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: The Polarbar Mailer; version=1.25d; build=2006 X-Mailer-Platform: OS/2; architecture=x86; version=20.45 X-Mailer-Java-VM: IBM Corporation; version=J2RE 1.3.1 IBM build co131-20060605 (SR10) (JIT enabled: jitc); compiler=jitc X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:18:28 -0400, "Lewis G Rosenthal" wrote: > Finally, are any of you using Wi-Fi access in large public spaces > (shopping centers, marinas, parks, etc.)? If so, how is the service? I find T-Mobile's plans to be unappealing. I use free access quite a bit when I'm not at home. I can park my car anywhere in downtown Santa Cruz where I live and have free access. This isn't intentional, but a result of so many cafe's with powerful access points. On longer trips, I'm finding that most cheap hotel rooms now include free wifi, and many roadside rest stops now have free wifi. Many airports now have free wifi. My ISP is offering wifi to the local cafe's at a very low rate. Most of them use that. It's so popular that most of them also restrict seating of patrons with computers to before 6 PM. Hope this helps, Neil -- Neil Waldhauer, neil@blondeguy.com First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure.