On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Chuck Hast wrote:
> Fellow sluggers, I am again on the road after a long several sedate years
> in Tampa. I have found somethat that to me is a rip-off, that is the paid WiFi
> sites, do not get me wrong I am not against them charging something but
> the $7-9 they get for 24 hours of access is a rep, so far I have found these
> ripoffs in places where they have you by the short hairs, i.e. there is no other
> solution (for obvious reasons of course).
>
> One that really burned me was the Memphis airport, they have (Wi)(Fi)
> logos all over the place, and you fire up and get hit by the Sprint Vampire
> wanting you to give them a CC so they can extract $9 for the time you
> are going to be setting in the airport.
Sometimes only port 80 is redirected, so you can ssh to somewhere (and
browse the web over tunneled X or VNC or whatever) without paying. Other
times, you're stuck.
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