Mickey D's introduced free WiFi in the USA in mid January. I look forward to trying it the next time I travel. :-) What's absurd here is that every motel on the interstate will have free WiFi, but the expensive hotels in downtown Boston or Chicago will charge for it. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:33 AM, David Mann <dm...@bluemoon.net.nz> wrote: > On Feb 7, 2010, at 9:07 AM, John Francis wrote: > >> The last time I used one (on the previous machine) was at my mother's >> house, to get internet access (Virgin UK pay-as-you-go). But for my last >> trip I used a USB cellular modem. > > We picked up one of those not long before Xmas as one of the big telcos was > running a tempting promotion with a prepay service. > > I think we've been given more in compensation than we've spent using it. > Their brand new network has experienced several major egg-on-the-face outages. > > But now when we travel I can connect without hunting for free wifi signals or > paying extortionate rates to use private or hotel networks. We really are > privileged in this city to have free wireless in the public libraries. > > Dave > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
