Wireless networking -- newbie question
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From: Davoud on 22 Feb 2010 20:10 Paul Magnussen: > My wife has a PowerBook G4 17" with an Airport card, which at the moment > connects to the Airport express in my home office. > > Now she would like to be able to take the PowerBook around with her and > connect to the Internet (say) on the bus. > > Where do we start? I can't seem to find any info, I guess I must be > searching for the wrong keywords... *IF* there is a WiFi signal available in the bus (or coffee shop or anywhere else that offers free, open WiFi) the Mac will find it automatically *IF* Airport is turned on (Network System Preference) *AND* also in the Network Preference "Ask to join new networks" is checked. Public networks are occasionally encrypted. If AirPort sees an encrypted network it will ask for a password. If you don't have or can't get (from the business establishment) the password, then it is not a public network. Easy as pie. Davoud -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm
From: Geoffrey S. Mendelson on 22 Feb 2010 23:54 Tom Harrington wrote: > They seem evasive about how fast it is. Supposedly my city is on their > expansion list somewhere, and I could really use an improvement on the > 1.5Mbps that Qwest offers here. The real question is not how fast or the range of a single WiMax commercial network is, but what happens when everyone has replaced their WiFi networks with WiMax ones, and there are hundreds or even thousands of them in range all sharing the same radio spectrum. It's going to be interesting. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm(a)mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia.
From: Jean Smith on 23 Feb 2010 02:53
On 2010-02-22 14:48:42 -0600, nospam said: > if the bus has wifi, it will work. the average city bus does not have > wifi, but greyhound and similar busses between major cities might. i > know that boston-new york busses (and trains) offer wifi and some > airplanes do too. Here is an example that a Facebook friend mentioned. https://www.boltbus.com/ -- http://www.dccc.org | Hypocrisy Hall of Fame Cartoon: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/opinions/tomtoles/ Media Matters http://mediamatters.org/ http://northalabamahealthcareforall.org/ |