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Traveling with WiFi
by Andrew McCaskey
Slashdot Review Podcast
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Quick update- As I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to confirm the plans for this weekend. It’s been necessary to postpone the TPN Roundtable by a week, so I will have details in a few days.
An interesting item from Travelpost contains the details on the WiFi facilities at the Top 20 Airports, as well as a more general listing of hotspot locations at 130 more airports. It’s an interesting list, even for those who are not making a lot of trips.
Before I read further, you may recall my prior warning concerning open (or for that matter “secure”) WiFi – from a few months ago, especially in airport and coffee shop locations. As I mentioned then, PublicVPN.com has the cure -an affordable VPN service for individuals and small busineess cure for about $6 per month.
Here are a few highlights from the list:
In the top Twenty, kudos to the enlightened management that allowed Free WiFi service at Las Vegas, Phoenix, Orlando, Philadelphia and JFK . Not being familiar with those particular airports (other than McCarran in Las Vegas) there may be several necessary grains of salt with your WiFi in the food court, which may be outside of the areas where you are kept bottled up in the system. Otherwise, somebody seems to be thinking of their business passengers.
The shining stars are about 30% of the smaller airports all over the country that have made the effort to attract and complement business travelers by offering free WiFi.
The converse brickbats need to be offered to smaller airports that are taking the same logic of $2.50 generic coffee and $7.00 pizza slices, and extending it to $7.95 WiFi daily rates. It is almost as bad as those cheezy Internet Kiosks that some poor fellow bought in a fit of late night TV viewing. If you ever see one of them being used, as intended, please write and let me know. There a lot of them – and I see them more in demand for their seats, AC power, and as a place to rest that expensive Pizza and soft drink.
Some venues (thankfully a small number) that just don’t play the WiFi game. The biggest surprise DCA – Reagan National Airport in our Nations’s Capital.
But then again, I expect that any lobbyist worth having is already on EV-DO , and has no need of WiFi.
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