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Article: Become Your Own Wireless Hot Spot
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 12, 2004
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Call it digital Murphy's Law: Minutes before an assignment was
due, my home-office power went kaput, knocking out my cable Net
access. I jumped in my car and frantically zipped around to every
cafe and hotel in the neighborhood, looking for a WiFi hot spot -- a
wireless Ethernet network -- so I could get back online without the
need for a phone jack, modem or cords. Alas, there was no free
lunch; I wasn't a subscriber to the WiFi services at my local haunts.
This crippling technical meltdown made me vow to upgrade my
infrastructure. Forget WiFi, I thought -- I needed to become my own
hot spot.
It turns out you can make your trusty mobile phone into the
equivalent of a WiFi connection: All ...