Ottawa Canada Dear Carol and list:
I remember the convention in question. It was the ACB National Convention in I think Las Vegas, Nevada and I think NFB ran into a similar problem at one of its convention hotels. The problem was the network in question wanted to see an alt plus I keystroke to signify you accepted their terms and conditions of service. Well the BrailleNote and VoiceNote and many other PDA have no alt key so conventioneers with only a BrailleNote or VoiceNote were out of luck. There was a work around: Call the tech support number for the hotel's Internet service, give them your MAC address, the unique IP address of your BrailleNote/VoiceNote and tell them you promise to not do anything bad on their network and they could manually put you onto their network. With your husband's work getting WIFI, here are some points to consider: 1. The network must be WIFI B compatible. If it is WIFI A, you're out of luck. Most WIFI G networks will also operate in B mode, and when they finally publish a spec for WIFI N, hopefully those networks will also operate in B mode. 2. If the network wants an alt key stroke to get onto the network, you're out of luck for getting on automatically, need to phone the firm's network support folks. 3. If the network uses WPA security instead of WEP, you're sunk! But if it works in WIFI B mode with or without WEP 64 or 128 security and doesn't want an alt keystroke, you're off to the races! Hope this helps. Brian Brian K. Lingard e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 (613) 247-0665 NYC Tel: +1 797-2862 FAX: +1 (613) 247-9998 Skype: ve3yiab2ji15 ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
