I put an Airport (wireless) card in my iBook this year and I’ve never been happier. I get to surf anywhere in my house and garden, I get to surf at my sister’s place, at local coffee shop, in my client’s offices, and in the airport, anywhere there’s a “hot spot.” Here’s a good article (Cutting the Cord by Bob Tedeschi) that appeared in the New York Times today (free, registration required) on WiFi, the what, how, and where. “Wireless Internet connections are available in an ever-growing number of public spaces. And a growing number of laptops and portable devices are equipped to connect to wireless signals automatically. The buzzwords often associated with this phenomenon are Wi-Fi – shorthand for wireless fidelity, the signal standard used to transmit data over local networks using radio signals – and “hot spots,” meaning those networks.” Tedeschi helpfully points out the “plenty of online resources to help map out the locations of free hot spots before you leave for a trip. On sites like jiwire.com, you can type in your location and find a list of nearby paid or free hot spots in 30 countries. In the United States alone, the site lists nearly 11,000 hot spots.” Other sites are Wi-FiHotspotList.com and locfinder.net, and NYCWireless.net. (Here in San Francisco we have SFLan.)
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