From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.26]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTPA id 336733; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:21:23 -0400 Message-ID: <44FEF582.20406@2rosenthals.com> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:21:22 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060904 MultiZilla/1.8.3.0a SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Hotspots: Play-for-Fee vs Play-for-Free References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/06/06 12:07 pm, Neil Waldhauer thus wrote : > 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 > It certainly does. Thanks, Neil!! -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------