SF WiFi » Wireless hot spots http://www.sf-wifi.com/blog Wireless Solutions for the Bay Area Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:41:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Wireless observations while on vacation: http://www.sf-wifi.com/blog/2009/07/wireless-observations-while-on-vacation/ http://www.sf-wifi.com/blog/2009/07/wireless-observations-while-on-vacation/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:32:11 +0000 Ron Wilhelm http://www.sf-wifi.com/blog/?p=269 Continue reading →]]> A vacation to the Midwest states revealed some interesting wireless networks.

 

Iowa – Hot spot wireless at highway rest stops. Corn, cows, and wifi.

 

Airports: Denver, San Jose, Omaha, Phoenix – Free wireless. Previously this was a pay service. Most networks with Cisco gear in use. To connect to one airport network  had to pass through 5 pages of captive portal to finally get access. Awkward.

 

Southwest Airlines – Wireless access on the flight. Pay service. Content filter, no videos. No thanks.

 

My niece watched Barney videos on my iPhone. Now that’s next generation wireless.

next generation wireless

next generation wireless

 

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