From: "Julian Thomas" Received: from mxout3.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.167] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 340591 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:06:41 -0400 Received: from mxin2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.176]) by mxout3.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GLUpE-000PbX-8L for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:06:32 -0400 Received: from smtp.fltg.net ([208.20.35.3] helo=emerald.fltg.net) by mxin2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GLUpE-0005Ok-4u for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:06:32 -0400 Received: from ASUS (fltg-dslttc1-30.fltg.net [208.31.47.161]) by emerald.fltg.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id k881R8A07941 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 21:27:08 -0400 Message-Id: <200609080127.k881R8A07941@emerald.fltg.net> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:58:52 -0400 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Hotspots: Play-for-Fee vs Play-for-Free X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v2.67/60 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -1.2 (-) In , on 09/06/06 at 07:27 PM, "Neil Waldhauer" typed: >But out in the area between the finger lakes -- uh... Do you even have TV >signal? No, but seriously, I doubt you have that much pay-WiFi, either. >Personally, I'd bring a WiFi laptop to a cafe in town to do serious >downloads. Well, "town" being Ithaca, we're only there once/week. We have TV signal. Our area is so seriously fragmented that you wouldn't believe it. We are at the edge of an area code, at the edge of the diocesces of two denominations; at the edge of the local news coverage of the newspaper. The people on the east side of where we are get their TV from Syracuse; those on the west side from Rochester. >My sister, who is a few miles outside of Santa Cruz, in an area too rural >to have electricity, uses a microwave network to get her broadband. (She >uses solar cells and a mast to make her own electricity.) Until the local phone company (an independent, who is deploying fiber and SLC boxes far more aggressively than Verizon) came through, we had NO broadband options, since TWC stops 2 miles north of us and a mile or so south of us. Now we have 3MB/sec DSL download. Getting back to wireless - I do have a 11.b WAP that I turn on only when I want to use my laptop somewhere else in the house other than next to this computer, where there is a nice wired connection available. When I do turn it on, I have it set to only accept known MAC addresses. I've never found another wireless signal anywhere near here (using netstumbler); my nearest neighbor isn't computer literate. -- Julian Thomas: jt@jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net In the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State! Warpstock X - October 12-15 2006; Windsor, Ont. I'll be there - will you? -- -- Good Intentions Paving Company: "We did the road to Hell."