[Ti] Wireless/National/Email/Internet/Ti/Macbook

[John Holt]

Our Airport in Little Rock has free WiFi. I would guess there are  
others.

john holt
On May 30, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Dennis Fazio wrote:

>
> On May 30, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Raymond J. Mas wrote:
>
>> I have a similar, somewhat related question. Next month our family  
>> is going
>> to visit Grandma in FL. She has no internet connection (or a  
>> computer for
>> that matter). What are my options for connecting my PowerBook to the
>> internet? Are there any WiFi services available? I don't need a  
>> permanent
>> connection, as I seldom travel. But I do need to keep in touch  
>> with work,
>> and I'd like to do it from her house.
>
> If you want to do it from her house, then you will have to use  
> dialup unless you can detect a neighbor's open base station. Check  
> with your ISP to see what national dialup arrangements they have.  
> It may require charges for long distance or 800 service, but often  
> many do it for no additional charge.
>
> Dialup works OK for email if you set things up ahead of time. Make  
> sure you set to:
> 1. Don't download attachments automatically
> 2. Disable filtering temporarily (so you don't copy the messages to  
> local mailboxes)
>
> You'll need permission to tie up the phone, but when I'm a guest, I  
> usually do things once a day late at night when it doesn't matter.
>
> Outside her house, there are likely several WiFi hotspots  
> available. All the coffee places now have them, though Dunn  
> Brothers is the only one I know that gives it for free. Any hotel  
> has it, though it is likely pricey at $10/day. Often libraries have  
> free WiFi now.
>
> I think there are services with national WiFi networks, but you  
> have to subscribe beforehand and I'm not familiar with their terms.  
> A Google search should turn some things up.
>
> -- 
> Dennis Fazio
> dfz at mac.com
>
>
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