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SKYHOOK Wireless: How It Works > Submit Wi-Fi AP

mike — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:43:09 GMT

You can submit your WAP location to SkyHook to improve their location database.

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GovHK 香港政府一站通：政府場地的 Wi-Fi 無線上網設施

oke — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:29:12 GMT

Quoted: 政府 Wi-Fi 無線上網計劃將在指定的政府場地設置 Wi-Fi 無線上網設施，讓市民免費接達互聯網，使日常生活更為方便。

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iPhone 3G をモデム代わりにネット接続する方法が公開 - iPhone・iPod touch ラボ

adltrmnet1 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:25:16 GMT

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Sign Up for Starbucks - AT&T Wi-Fi

mohit — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:22:01 GMT

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.

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WNR834Bv2 - Firmware Version 2.1.13

sung — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:14:08 GMT

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

>> to upgrade

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Annoyances.org - Setting up Internet Connection Sharing (Windows XP)

mike — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:45:51 GMT

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.

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Voracious: Canal Street Coffee (Seattle Weekly)

mohit — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:14:12 GMT

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.

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Enable WPA Wireless access point in Ubuntu Linux -- Debian Admin

bdeseattle — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:02:49 GMT

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Download details: Ad Hoc Internet Sharing with Microsoft Windows XP

mike — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:03:06 GMT

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.

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Amazon.com: Linksys WTR54GS Wireless G Travel Router with Speedbooster: Electronics

royleban — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:11:35 GMT

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.

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