Re: I accessed my first public wifi hotspot yesterday

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From: Klaus Ernst (ernstk_at_sprynet.com)
Date: 02/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:04:33 GMT

Meanwhile across the river on Manhattan free Wi-Fi at McDonald's during
the month of March. This is because Cometa ended their relationship with
AT&T.
Enjoy!
Klaus Ernst NYC
"Eric Hicks [MVP, Windows Mobile devices]" <e_dadu@nomospam.yahoo.com> wrote
in message news:ednt0ts$DHA.4060@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> My family some of my friends and I went to Liberty Science Center in New
> Jersey and while standing in line I thought "it would be nice if this
place
> had wifi". So I took out my ipaq and my friend took out his dell and
> withing seconds we were online. It was short lived cause all the people I
> normally talk to on IM were with me but it was still cool.
>
> --
> Eric Hicks [That_Kid] (MS-MVP Mobile Devices)
>
> The MS-MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights...
>
>
>
> "Nigel Kendrick" <nkendrick@atthecustomerserviceacademydot.com> wrote in
> message news:c1r6k3$n7l$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > It's a wonderful world innit!?
> >
> > I was working in a customer's training room in London and I noticed an
> > access point mounted high up a wall so I phoned the customer, who was in
> > another part of the building at the time, and asked whether it would be
OK
> > for me to use it and he said 'fine' and that he'd SMS me the SSID and
WEP
> > keys.
> >
> > In the meantime I'd fired up my Notebook (and Ipaq!) and I was surfing
> > already. I then noticed that I was getting a lousy signal, even though I
> was
> > only about 4m from the AP, so I went and had a look at it; I was
surprised
> > that a bit of Cisco kit could give such poor performance, but then
> realised
> > I was actually connected to a Belkin access point.
> >
> > A further bit of 'sniffing' revealed that I had managed to connect to an
> > 'open' (ie: left at default settings) access point in an office across
the
> > road and was happily surfing the 'net and checking emails while
> 'surrounded'
> > by a network of Macs on a design agency's network!
> >
> > NK
> >
> >
>
>

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