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Any good way to locate wireless internet "hotspots" while traveling in US?
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August 12th, 2008, 04:08 PM
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Re: Any good way to locate wireless internet "hotspots" while traveling in US?
TrendNEt is the manufacturer of a hotspot locator.
    
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August 13th, 2008, 12:31 PM
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Re: Any good way to locate wireless internet "hotspots" while traveling in US?
Kensington has also a low cost wifi finder...
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August 13th, 2008, 01:15 PM
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Re: Any good way to locate wireless internet "hotspots" while traveling in US?
There are also many Hot Spot collections available on the web that you could import into the application. I can't personally vouch for their accuracy but you could give them a try.
Example: http://www.gps-data-team.com/poi/uni...wifi_hotspots/
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August 16th, 2008, 12:29 AM
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Re: Any good way to locate wireless internet "hotspots" while traveling in US?
If you have Vista you can just right-click on the network icon in the system tray (lower right, by the clock) and select "Connect to network". Let it look for wireless networks. It will give you a list of all the wireless networks it can see and tell you whether each is secure or not.
I don't know if XP has a similar feature because my laptop has Vista and it's my first laptop. ...ken...
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