Trying out WiFi

Now have laptop with WiFi and am wondering where I can try this out.

Is there a web site out there somewhere that lists the various places in
the country where WiFi 'free' zones are available (apart from airports)?

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Maurice Batey

Maurice Batey wrote:
> Now have laptop with WiFi and am wondering where I can try this out.

Your local library?

Owain

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:49:48 +0100, Maurice Batey
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>Now have laptop with WiFi and am wondering where I can try this out.
>
>Is there a web site out there somewhere that lists the various places in
>the country where WiFi 'free' zones are available (apart from airports)?

IME the one place wifi generally isn't free is at airports.

However you should find that Skype works for free at most London
mainline terminus railway stations, assuming that Spectrum Interactive
has kept to the deal that Broadreach made with Skype.

Norwich has some free coverage too in parts of the city.

> Now have laptop with WiFi and am wondering where I can try this out.
> Is there a web site out there somewhere that lists the various places in
> the country where WiFi 'free' zones are available (apart from airports)?

Legally ? Perhaps see if you have a local coffee shop with free wifi.

Otherwise, driving down any residential street with Netstumbler
running in the background will almost certainly find a few...

More worryingly, many industrialised areas are often wide open.

Otherwise, try these - you might have somewhere local with it:

http://www.fon.com/en/
http://www.thecloud.net/content/pdf/...07-02-07_1.pdf

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> Now have laptop with WiFi and am wondering where I can try this out.
>
> Is there a web site out there somewhere that lists the various places in
> the country where WiFi 'free' zones are available (apart from airports)?
>
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> Maurice Batey
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park out side your local pcworld. They should know better but my local pc
world has an unsecured network

regards
adam

> park out side your local pcworld. They should know better but my local pc
> world has an unsecured network

PMSL

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> "Maurice Batey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Now have laptop with WiFi and am wondering where I can try this out.
>>
>> Is there a web site out there somewhere that lists the various places in
>> the country where WiFi 'free' zones are available (apart from airports)?
>>
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>> Maurice Batey
>> (Retired in Surrey, UK)
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> park out side your local pcworld. They should know better but my local pc
> world has an unsecured network
>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...cs/6565079.stm


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Peter <X-Files fan>

Maurice Batey wrote:

> Now have laptop with WiFi and am wondering where I can try this out.
>
> Is there a web site out there somewhere that lists the various places in
> the country where WiFi 'free' zones are available (apart from airports)?
>

consume.net, not sure how accurate it is any more, however.

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Yes. I'm just guessing.

Mark wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:49:48 +0100, Maurice Batey
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Now have laptop with WiFi and am wondering where I can try this out.
>>
>>Is there a web site out there somewhere that lists the various places in
>>the country where WiFi 'free' zones are available (apart from airports)?
>
> IME the one place wifi generally isn't free is at airports.

Last time I was at Newcastle airport, the pay-for WiFi only blocked HTTP(S)
traffic until you bought a voucher. AIM, MSN, SSH et al worked fine.

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Yes. I'm just guessing.

"Owain" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Maurice Batey wrote:
> > Now have laptop with WiFi and am wondering where I can
> > try this out.
>
> Your local library?

Not here. They have free access using their computers, but no wi-fi.

Ivor