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 338943 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:11:51 -0400 Message-ID: <450028A7.5070506@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:11:51 -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 09:51 pm, Julian Thomas thus wrote : > In , on 09/06/06 > at 09:07 AM, "Neil Waldhauer" > typed: > > >> 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. >> > > 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. > > Julian, we started a discussion some time ago about broadband options up there. I don't recall where we left off, but I would recommend looking into a good commercial-grade satellite service, such as http://www.skycasters.com. Again, if there's some possible business to be had in the provisioning and the Wi-Fi setup, we'd be happy to look into it (under your auspices, of course). We're looking at a couple large projects right now which may indeed have me traveling between the end of Warpstock and New Year's, but I could surely get up your direction to look into this at some point (or even on the way up to Warpstock next month). > OTOH, our housing costs are not out of sight and our wines are right up > there with those from California. > > :-) True enough!! -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------