iBook, Cafes and other WiFi spots

[IJ Reilly]

sotied, the reason you're finding so many wireless networks with decent signals and IJReilly isn't is you have an iBook and IJReilly has a PowerBook.

that's the best thing about iBooks -- the wireless network reception.

maybe I'll sell my PowerBook and get an iBook.

Coming back late to this thread... the PowerBook I was using in Manhattan was a Pismo, which did have very good wireless reception (better than the later Ti or Ai books). I also I did find plenty of networks with adequate signal strength, but they were all protected or subscription. I even tried it on the windowsill of my hotel room, about 12 floors up. I might have been in the wrong part of town, though. This was near Times Square.

 

[Rod Rod]

Coming back late to this thread... the PowerBook I was using in Manhattan was a Pismo, which did have very good wireless reception (better than the later Ti or Ai books). I also I did find plenty of networks with adequate signal strength, but they were all protected or subscription. I even tried it on the windowsill of my hotel room, about 12 floors up. I might have been in the wrong part of town, though. This was near Times Square.

my bad, apologies for the assumption.

I once caught an open wireless internet connection 12 stories up. I was in a hotel in Montreal which was across a parking lot from an office building. I'm guessing the signal was from one of the upper floors of that office building.

 

[johnnyjibbs]

I wish they'd get more free wi-fi hotspots in the UK. Plenty of hotspots are starting to spring up, but who wants to pay £6/hour for the priveledge of taking your PB into town and sitting at a cafe when you can access the net at home? I'd like to see free access while you have a coffee, and stuff like that. It'll happen eventually but, as usual, we're several years behind the US on that front..

But I guess our society hasn't evolved there yet. I don't tend to see any people with laptops in coffee shops here in the UK, while it sounds like quite a common occurrence in the US. That'll change here in time, it just takes some first.