iPod touch Using an Ipod Touch in Asia

[ks-man]

I'm going to Asia in a couple of weeks for work. If I bring my ipod touch can it connect to an open wifi the same way it does in the US? Does anybody know if there are a lot of free wi-fi hotspots in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok?

Thanks for the help.

 

[teddylah]

absolutely can i think, at least in Singapore. U can get free wifi connection almost everywhere . But open safari first, u might be asked to login 😀

 

[mavis]

Wirelessly posted (iTouch 1.1.2 (JB'd): Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3B48b Safari/419.3)

absolutely can i think, at least in Singapore. U can get free wifi connection almost everywhere . But open safari first, u might be asked to login 😀

Must be nice. Here in Tokyo, free WiFi spots are few and far between. Perhaps even non-existent - I have actually NEVER found a free, open WiFi network, aside from the one or two I've picked up in residential areas (people forgetting to lock their networks) ... Tokyo absolutely SUCKS for WiFi 🙁

 

[sushi]

Tokyo absolutely SUCKS for WiFi 🙁

This is true.

There are some places but they are few and far between. I hope this changes in a few years. Right now cell phones rule and cell phone companies do not want to give up the revenue.

 

[Richard.John]

Japanese McDonalds have Softbank BB mobilepoint but it's not free, I admit.

 

[ob81]

YES. The catch is that you will need help finding the proper link on the AD page once you connect. Here in Japan, evn some of the railways have free wi-fi, but I can't read the AD page and end up clicking ADs until the train comes 🙁

 

[maestrokev]

I didn't find too many open Hotspots when visiting those Asian countries you mentioned. Be careful, I remember reading that Singapore has a law to prosecute people who surf on another's WiFi, even if left open. That's not a country you want to be caught breaking the law in.

 

[ks-man]

I didn't find too many open Hotspots when visiting those Asian countries you mentioned. Be careful, I remember reading that Singapore has a law to prosecute people who surf on another's WiFi, even if left open. That's not a country you want to be caught breaking the law in.

Thanks for the tip. You are definitely right that Singapore is not a country where you want to mess with the law.

 

[Chundles]

Thanks for the tip. You are definitely right that Singapore is not a country where you want to mess with the law.

Yep, too true. I lived there for a number of years when I was younger and it is definitely a place to stay on the good side of Johnny Law.

 

[teddylah]

Thanks for the tip. You are definitely right that Singapore is not a country where you want to mess with the law.

lol Dont worry about that, got 2 free one for public , they're Stahub and Singtel, check it out http://www.icellnetwork.com/corp/index.htm 😀