Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:12:02 -0600
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: WiFi Boingo [Non-Vanagon-Content]
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Use a bluetooth adapter (or internal bluetooth if you have one in your
laptop) to bond with your bluetooth enabled cell phone to use the
phone as a modem and dial into your ISP's dialup line, which they
should furnish to business travelers upon request if they don't make
it widely known.
This way, you can dial in anywhere you get cell service. I camp in
some pretty remote areas of the state and this works well in a pinch.
It's slooooooow as a diesel westy (14.4 with my carrier, Verizon, who
probably limits it artificially) but it's free after hours and on
weekends and there are no additional data charges since they (the
carrier) don't know what you are doing with the phone. Be careful of
roaming charges, though.
When I'm near a hotspot I use that, but the cell phone modem is often
a welcome link to the world.
You can google it. It takes just a minute or two to set up.
Jim
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:48 PM, John Lauterbach
<jhlauterbach@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> You may be better off with a Sierra Wireless 881 air card (USB device)
> and the appropriate wireless account. I travel more frequently than
> most, and I have saved the monthly fee in hotel internet charges.
>
> John
>
> On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 13:21 -0800, M'obeechi wrote:
>> Boingo is saying it has 100,000 WiFi's worldwide, as well as McDonalds, bettery yet, Starbucks, and Barnes Noble, plus Airports and Hotels, so I guess its using ATT's networks... Has anyone used this service? The only reviews I can find date back to 2005, when they had like 20,000 hotspots.
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