[Ti] OT: htospots (was:International dialup ...)

[Charles Shere]

Hello Trevor,

I wrote "haul," because for a couple of years my wife and I have been 
on walking trips, and even a Ti-500 is big and heavy when you carry 
everything on your back.

I have very limited experience so far with hotspots. Here in northern 
California I've found two types:

1) pay-as-you-go connections, typically either 10¢ per minute 
(SurfAndSip) or $6 per hour (T-Mobile). T-Mobile has a deal with the 
Starbucks coffeehouse chain; most of their franchises now offer this. I 
haven't yet tried this, because I have also found

2) free WiFi outlets. In Berkeley there's a coffeehouse with a free 
hotspot; you simply open up your AirPort and you're immediately online. 
Free. There's a Starbucks in the nearest big town to me (Santa Rosa, 
north of San Francisco) conveniently located across the street from a 
local ISP office: in that café I can get the ISP (sonic) free, or pay 
for T-Mobile!

Increasingly there are free public hotspots here in the States, I'm 
told. A Google search for WiFi hotspots should turn them up. Some 
communities are sponsoring them; in other cases local user groups.

It's the way things should be, even in Switzerland!

--
Charles Shere
http://www.shere.org