Re: [SLUG] WiFI Ripoff

From: Steven Buehler (swbuehler@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2006 - 09:08:40 EST


There are some places with free wi-fi. Panera locations immediately
come to mind. International Plaza in Tampa just installed free wi-fi
throughout the mall courtesy of Bright House Networks (they do ask for
an e-mail address, but that's it). Here in Lakeland there is free
wi-fi downtown (Surf Lakeland), but it is *pathetically* slow and
you're restricted solely to web browsing (VPN clients don't work).

I'm sitting on a code I got with my Palm T|X for 30 days of free
T-Mobile wi-fi, but I've not been anywhere that uses it (Starbucks
locations use it, but I don't know of anywhere else that does).

On 3/30/06, Richard Morgan <rmorgan@heavysystems.com> wrote:
> A lot of downtown city areas have free wireless access. Heck, there
> are tons of
> open WAP's all over the place. ;-)
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Chuck Hast <wchast@gmail.com>:
>
> > 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).
>
>
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