wifi

Sign up here for free AT&T Wi-Fi @ Starbucks. You need to have a Starbucks card first.

Quoted: Starbucks Card Wi-Fi Offer
Simply buy a card, or if you have a card you've used or reloaded in the past 30 days, you're ready to sign in.

having issues with my netgear router - was told by support to follow these directions. need to do this later.

>> to upgrade

I'm having a bear of a time trying to set up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) so that I can have one computer set up to my hotel's wired internet connection, and then share that internet connection via an ad-hoc Wifi connection to a second computer in our hotel room.

ICS is amazingly poorly documented, as well as seeming very difficult to set up a success ad-hoc wifi network.

- My wifi card seems to be using a 169.254.x.x address - but the documentation I've read said to expect it to expose 192.168.0.1.
- My shared WiFi connection does not expose a DHCP server - so clients are not getting an address or Gateway IP address from my machine.

And besides this, it's very common for Windows networking to just hang for minutes at a time and not return control to the calling user interface. There's just about no other piece of software I use that sucks as bad as windows networking.

Refaving this place. They have plenty of outdoor seating overlooking the Burke-Gilman trail and the canal. On top of that, they offer free wi-fi, serve lunch, and have power outlets outside.

Quoted: Two doors down from my favorite language escuela, Seattle Language Academy (just off the Burke-Gilman in Fremont), is the brand new Canal Street Coffee.

This article purports to explain how to set up an ad hoc wireless network that can share a single wired internet connection.

Quoted: This article descibes how to configure computers running Windows XP to share an Internet connection using an ad hoc wireless network.

Just got this and will be trying it out on an upcoming trip. Looks well made and comes with a semi-hard travel case and a flat, roll-up Ethernet cable.

About the only disadvantage from what I can tell is that it can't connect to an encrypted WiFi connection for the purposes of establishing a wired connection to a machine. This is not a scenario that I personally need.

Minor nit: Since I always have an Ethernet cable in each of the two bags I carry my laptop bag in, I don't need the roll-up Ethernet cable. But, if I leave it out, there's empty room in the travel case, which could possibly lead to it being crushed.

UPDATE: I'm very happy with it. It even subbed in my house when I had to send in my "big" router for a warranty exchange. That did expose another disadvantage -- range is a bit weak, probably because it has a small, internal antenna. The laptop card may matter too. A current card had no problem connecting at 60 feet away, while an older A/B card was unable to connect at 30 feet with just one wall in the way (both cards were internal to the laptops).

Quoted: The Linksys Wireless-G Travel Router with SpeedBooster lets you carry a wireless network wherever you go. There's a built-in access point, which lets you connect SpeedBooster-enhanced and regular Wireless-G and Wireless-B devices to the network. There's also an Ethernet port to connect your wired PC. The Router function ties it together and lets your PCs share a wired or wireless Internet connection.

The travel-friendly form factor includes a built-in power supply and antenna--it even comes with a travel case! Create a temporary, personal, wireless access "bubble" in your hotel room. Just plug the Router directly into the wall, and connect the hotel's fast Internet service cable. You can also create a shared-access bubble attached to a wireless Internet connection to use multiple devices on a single hotspot account in a coffee shop or airport lounge.

To protect your data and privacy, the Wireless-G Broadband Router can encode all wireless transmissions with WEP or extra-strength WPA Personal encryption. The Router can serve as a DHCP Server, has a powerful SPI firewall to protect your PCs against intruders and most known Internet attacks, and supports VPN pass-through. Configuration is a snap with the web browser-based configuration utility.