From: "Neil Waldhauer" Received: from mxout4.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.168] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 337961 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:27:25 -0400 Received: from mxin1.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.175]) by mxout4.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GL9bv-0005rY-AY for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:27:24 -0400 Received: from mail.cruzio.com ([63.249.95.37]) by mxin1.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GL9bu-000JaN-N0 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:27:22 -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 k872RLAQ035544 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200609070227.k872RLAQ035544@mail.cruzio.com> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 19:27:15 -0700 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: 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 21:51:30 -0400, "Julian Thomas" wrote: > Nice that out there in California you have all these options. Most of us > in rural areas in the east don't have a signal of any sort within 20 > miles, and most of them are motels that are hardly free access points to > non-customers. As far as I know, no New York Thruway rest areas are > currently offering free wifi. Hi Julian, Santa Cruz is similar in size and feel to Ithaca, NY. I'll bet the WiFi situation in Ithaca is similar to that in Santa Cruz. OK, here is a link to about 80 free WiFi hot spots in Ithaca. By the way, only port 80 and the DHCP port are available free. You have to pay for other access. But out in the area between the finger lakes -- uh... Do you even have TV signal? No, but seriously, I doubt you have that much pay-WiFi, either. Personally, I'd bring a WiFi laptop to a cafe in town to do serious downloads. My sister, who is a few miles outside of Santa Cruz, in an area too rural to have electricity, uses a microwave network to get her broadband. (She uses solar cells and a mast to make her own electricity.) Neil -- Neil Waldhauer, neil@blondeguy.com If you try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.