From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.22]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPA id 1869221 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:16:52 -0400 Message-ID: <480B6C75.4030706@2rosenthals.com> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:16:53 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080326 MultiZilla/1.8.3.4e SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Hotspot Detectors References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/20/08 12:08 pm, Hakan thus wrote : > Thank you, Lewis. > > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:57:08 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > > >> On 04/20/08 08:14 am, SYNass i-lists thus wrote : >> >>> Kensington !? >>> >>> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 06:20 -0400, Hakan wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Can anyone suggest/recommend a device to detect the presence of public >>>> WiFi-nets so that it is not necessary to turn on the computer and boot >>>> in order to find out if there are any hotspots nearby? >>>> >>>> The ideal device should be small, have a display that shows the name(s) >>>> of the available nets if any found, and be cheap... >>>> >>>> >>>> >> The original Kensington WiFinder got lousy reviews when it first came out: >> >> http://wifinetnews.com/archives/002024.html (one example) >> >> However, there is a newer revision available. The WiFi Finder Plus ( >> http://us.kensington.com/html/5703.html ) seems to be a better gizmo >> than its predecessor: >> >> http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article.asp?item_id=279 >> http://the-gadgeteer.com/review/kensington_wifi_finder_plus_review >> >> Surely. Tom may have some better suggestions than the latest Kensington; better check those first. It's not the $$ for the unit (obviously), it's the value for the buck. $30 for a gadget that only detects half of the available networks or gives you no SSIDs just isn't as valuable as a little box which may be slightly larger but gives you more pertinent information. When I was using my Sony Ericsson P990i smart phone with built-in 802.11, I used that to detect networks. I haven't picked up a card for my Treo 680 yet, but I'm hoping to be able to use it in the same way. -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------