In article <(E-Mail Removed) m>, David Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> With my laptop can I connect ti these wi fi areas? is it free? I need
>> access ?
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>Probably not free.
>
>> how do I get access ?
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>Connect to the network
>Browse in your browser and if it's not free, you'll be presented with a
>sign up page where you spend money.
Funny one, not on the subject here, but sort of related. I'm in the airport
in Manchester, NH stuck waiting for a delayed flight. I fire up the Laptop
and am confronted with the pay to play on the airport wireless. Well, it
isn't worth it to me that day so I sort say OK and don't bother, other
things to do on the computer. While staring into space I see the famous
orange female RJ connector on a pole (holding up the roof- between gate
seating areas). Being a little reckless (foolish many could fairly say) I
yank a wire out of my back pack and look to see if the post is hot. Bingo
free Internet access and best of all a power outlet as well a few inches
away so got to save battery for the flight.
So much for homeland security, I didn't try to snoop the network there,
trying to be a good boy, but sure did seem open if I could get an IP from
whatever DHCP server was going and get to the Internet. This has been
several weeks and no visit from the FBI so I assume no one actually cared.
But I still wonder if someone of a less then 'honest' bent had jacked into
the same port?
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>David.
fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.
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