Hi Kevin and listers,
Today, I went to a Starbucks location in Fort worth where I successfully
connected to the TMobie wireless system.
Before I went to Starbucks, I created a Tmobile wireless acount so that I
wouldn't have to do that while connected at Starbucks.
I found the TMobile site by first going to the Starbucks home page and doing
a search for wireless Internet.
I definitely needed the headphones as the music was louder than I expected.
There is a big difference from talking to friends to trying to listen to a
synthesizer and also read along in Braille.
All in all, I think the wireless access is pretty neat.
From what I understand, there may be some drawbacks to free hotspots in
terms of not allowing people to check their e-mail, etc.
Liz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Chao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "BrailleNote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:32 PM
Subject: [Braillenote] HotSpots
Dear Listers,
I was wondering if anyone has tried using their BrailleNote to connect to
a HotSpot, such as: Starbuck's, malls, or any other place that offers WiFi
access.
I recently tried this at Starbuck's, I was able to find, connect to the
internet; the part where I found some problems was when I tried opening
the web browser, when I tried to open the web browser, the page that
appeared was a page that required a user name and password. And, when I
read further down the page, there was information about pricing, I thought
the purpose of HotSpots was to be able to access the internet, get in and
out, all without paying. Later that same day, I still had the
determination to get on to the internet, for the sake of doing so, I went
to the movies, I was a bit early, so I tried accessing their internet, I
found, connected, but when I tried opening the browser, I got the message
"cannot find server."
Has anyone had this experience when trying to access a HotSpot, if so, can
you please fill me in on your work-around I didn't think trying to access
a HotSpot could be so complicated.
Thanks for the information you are able to provide regarding this topic.
Kevin
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