[P1] Tmobile hotspot

[William Carr]

On Nov 23, 2003, at 8:04 PM, Peter Nacken wrote:

> Anyone using this service ??? Is it any good ? Fast ? Has firewall
> restrictions ???

> My biggest problem is that I do not even drink coffee and try to avoid
> mcdonalds as much as possible (evil temptation)

I used it at the local Borders Book Store.   It's quick, but seems slow 
compared to my sister's cable modem.  Which means that if you want to 
download a 500 MB movie it's still going to take hours rather than 
minutes.

I hit no Firewall restrictions.   Your first use generally gets a free 
day pass.

It's easy to use.  You turn Airport on.   You start your browser, 
Safari in my case.   Your Mac looks for any connection and finds the 
Airport, and then somehow the browser gets redirected to their login 
page.

There was just one problem.   They bill for Pay As You Go at  $6 for 
the first hour, and 10 cents per minute thereafter.   I closed my iBook 
for a few minutes, re-opened it and went back to surfing.   I didn't 
have to login again, nor was there any indication that I ever logged 
out.

I got billed for two one hour segments and ended up paying $15 instead 
of $10.     I appealed this and am waiting on a confirmation, it's been 
about a week.

Of course if you pay monthly this will be a non-problem.

Do you imply that there are McDonalds restaurants that have hotspots 
now?

Jkirk








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