Wireless T-mobile Hotspot- Has anybody used them with their Mac?

[iShater]

Originally posted by Eniregnat
Pardon the delayed reply, but I they just caned 80% of the staff at my work.
I have less than 5 days to pack up my studio.
Currently I have 1.4 terabytes of audio offline and unusable because our primary server ate it’s self.
Sorry, just needed to vent.

It should also be of note that one of the 3 hotspots I have visited have a “free” access wi-fi network with in reach.

Next project-> A very well tuned antenna.

Sorry to hear about your work, hope it works out for ya.

"Free" access? as in a public network? These exist?!

 

[chicagdan]

I've found the T-mobile service to be expensive and mediocre. For Mac users in Chicago, I recommend going to coffee houses that use the FaceFive network ... $3 an hour, $7 a day, $20 a month and a few of the coffee houses have outdoor seating where you can pick up the wifi signal (we Chicagoans try to enjoy our 90 days of good weather as much as possible.)

Here in Wicker Park, there are three FaceFive coffee houses within a mile, Atomix on Chicago Ave is my favorite (and it's always packed with Macheads.)

 

[Eniregnat]

Originally posted by iShater
Sorry to hear about your work, hope it works out for you.

"Free" access? as in a public network? These exist?!

Re work: It sucks. I take pride in my work and I hate to see the employees, clients and my work treated so poorly.

Re Free: Yes. Most of the public Hotspot networks that a person may stumble on (A net stumbler is a tool designed to sniff out such networks) are run across that don't require a password are deliberately free. If you run into one, or learn of one via war-chalk marks or node map treat it with respect. Often the free bandwidth is obvious. They often have names like "free", "gratis", or "any user".

As for tools. I don't use any. I'm an os 9.2 user and there are no (few) tools out there. I would have to create my own stumbler. I do not believe it is in ethical to use elegant tools (linguistic and/or intuitive) or brute force tools to enter networks. If people want you to use their networks they will make it obvious. Don’t forget, shareing bandwidth is para-legal, and breaking into somebodies network violates a number of federal laws (mostly in title 47 of the CFR ). I'm to old to be that stuped.

For my purposes, T-mobile is really cheap. $20 a month for unlimited access. I have had no bandwidth problems, and should I travel, I have access at a lot of airports both inside and outside the US. I haven’t found them mediocre. In my town there is no other choice, especially if one doesn’t have a landline, cable and can’t afford DSL.