On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:33:07 GMT, "Glendon"
wrote:


To find out the protocols for hooking up at a Starbucks AP, go to their
website and find out what applies in your locality. The site will also tell
you about payment options. Here in Australia, Starbucks provides wifi via
the main telco, Telstra. Here you need to activate a wifi account with
Telstra , or for casual use you can supply your CC details, I think.

Starbucks is a good way of getting things up and running, but they are
expensive. There are many cafes etc which provide free wifi service. Its a
matter of finding them....by word of mouth, a sign in the window, or driving
around with your laptop looking for AP's ! NetStumbler is good, free
software for detecting and analysing AP's.

Remember to turn your radio off when not using wifi....its a significant
drain on the battery otherwise.

alt.internet.wireless has some useful discussion.


Thanks much. THis is helpful. My computer automated much of the matter
as I discovered after my first post. RTFM was unnecessary as it turned
out. This computer advertises "no configuration connectivity" on the
box and really doesn't have much of a M to RTF.

It did have a card that showed where the antenna switch was. Very
useful, since it isn't at all conspicuous.



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