From: "Ray Davison" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTP id 1869480 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:52:55 -0400 Received-SPF: pass (secmgr-ny.randr: domain of charter.net designates 216.33.127.83 as permitted sender) client-ip=216.33.127.83; envelope-from=raydav@charter.net; helo=mta41.charter.net; Received: from mta41.charter.net ([216.33.127.83]) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JnjKz-0002Vl-FS for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:52:55 -0400 Received: from aarprv06.charter.net ([10.20.200.76]) by mta41.charter.net (InterMail vM.7.08.03.00 201-2186-126-20070710) with ESMTP id <20080420235240.VZOR13218.mta41.charter.net@aarprv06.charter.net> for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:52:40 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (really [71.95.2.88]) by aarprv06.charter.net with ESMTP id <20080420235240.KIXR3194.aarprv06.charter.net@[192.168.1.100]> for ; Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:52:40 -0400 Message-ID: <480BD74F.8010500@charter.net> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:52:47 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080327 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 (PmW) 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 X-Chzlrs: 0 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ 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... I have one. It is small and didn't cost much. But I do not use it. It will tell you there is something out there, but no clue as to what. I just don't find it to be that useful. Ray