On-the Road Internet Access?

[Stooper and B]

We just got back from a trip up to Superior and needed some more caches. Now I don’t know about this wap or was or whatever. I stick to good ol’ fashioned plain white paper. I find it a lot faster. And with almost all libraries offering internet access to everyone, free, you can’t beat it. We even had free access at one of our hotels we stayed at.

[kbraband]

Yesterday the cable guy came for a service call. I mentioned that I eventually wanted to go with a wireless home network. He asked, “Do you need a WiFi card for your notebook?” and he gave me one. Cool! Tonight as I ran a few errands I took my WiFi-equipped notebook with me and discovered a couple of hotspots in residential neighborhoods. Now I can’t wait to get downtown to Pere Marquette Park and other free sites to try it out.

[jthorson]

It was announced that:

Verizon ready to begin offering wireless laptop Internet citywide
By JASON GERTZEN
[email protected]
Posted: Sept. 22, 2004

Verizon Wireless is including Milwaukee among 14 cities where on-the-go business people can equip their laptops for a new high-speed data service that will be available anywhere in the metro area.

Verizon, the nation’s largest wireless carrier, said it already has signed up thousands of business customers in Washington, D.C., San Diego and Las Vegas, where the service was introduced over the past year under the BroadbandAccess brand name.

The service will be available starting Monday in 11 additional cities and 24 airports, including Milwaukee and Mitchell International Airport.

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[WIRACER24]

Many truck stops are getting wireless ports. Flying J was the one I used on my vacation.

[kbraband]

quote:

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Originally posted by jthorson:
Verizon Wireless is including Milwaukee among 14 cities where on-the-go business people can equip their laptops for a new high-speed data service that will be available anywhere in the metro area.

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“Customers who buy a special computer card sold for $100 to $150 and pay $80 in monthly subscription fees can see download speeds of 300 to 500 kilobits per second, which is equivalent to some wire-based high-speed services.”

Ouch. I like it better when the cable guy gives me a free card.

[This message has been edited by kbraband (edited 09-24-2004).]

[cacheseekers]

The person who wrote that article must have looked at the most expensive wireless cards on the market. I own 3 different kinds of wireless cards and none cost me more than 50$ new. Infact, the internal card for my laptop cost me 14$ including shipping and it’s support in unix so I can run that on my laptop instead of windows. I don’t have ‘cheap’ quality cards either, a Cisco, Belkin, and Intel.

[Cathunter]

I think the referenced wireless card is one that is hardware specific to verizon’s network. Thus, they will charge whatever the market will bear.

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[cacheseekers]

If you can’t use a 802.11 B/G card on their network, it’s worthless. Proprietary hardware is out in the network world now. They also compare it to Wi-Fi that’s “increasingly available in hotels, cafe’s and parks”, which is 802.11 B/G.

All of the industry journals i’ve been reading indicated 802.11 rollout in major cities.

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