[Novalug] Free HotSpot

[David A. Hammond]

Matt Good wrote:

---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:13:35 -0500
>From: Matt Good <matt at matt-good.net>
>Subject: Re: [Novalug] Free HotSpot
>To: gregory pryzby <greg at pryzby.org>
>Cc: "Northern Virginia Linux User's Group"
<novalug at calypso.tux.org>
>
>On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:08 -0500, gregory pryzby
wrote:
>>
http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/29/how-to-nab-free-t-mobile-wifi-lovin-without-running-vista/
>
>This is of course a 3 month trial. T-Mobile also
seems to give these
>trials away with a lot of new laptops. However if
you want continued
>service AT&T is a cheaper alternative, and at least
at the Reston
>Spectrum location Starbucks' T-Mobile is only 11MB
while the adjoining
>Barnes & Noble has AT&T with 54MB.
>
>Of course there's also free WiFi at Panera.
>
>-- Matt Good
>

Also, most Fairfax County libraries (at least the
larger
regional libraries) have free wifi. I have used the
free
wifi at the Chantilly library and it gave me great
download
speeds. You'll have to stop at the information desk
to get
the instruction sheet that gives you the ssid you'll
need.
The instructions are only for Windows and Mac, but
are so
simple that they are trivial to generalize for
Linux.

Dave