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Article: Web sites work better than Finder for locating Wi-Fi hot spots
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 8, 2003
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Coffee shops, airports, restaurants and other establishments have
been setting up wireless Internet connections, or "Wi-Fi hot spots,"
for quite some time now.
That's exciting news for anyone with a Wi-Fi-ready laptop, because
you can just stroll into these places and get onto the Internet, for
a fee, or even in some cases free. The problem is finding the hot
spots. Wi-Fi locations aren't well advertised, and there's no
universal sign or symbol identifying them.
Occasionally, you'll see a sign in a coffee-shop window, like the
T-Mobile signs that are posted in many Starbucks branches. But for
the most part, wireless hunting is luck of the draw. I often arrive
in an airport and have to take ...