On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:47:10AM -0400, Chris I wrote:
> I recently drove across Canada, and had a very hard time finding
> internet cafe's that provided wired _or_ wireless access for laptops.
> However, I had a fairly decent time finding open wireless access
> points. Of course you have to consider that (a) these people don't know
> what their doing, or (b) are very kind, so I tried to be as light on
> bandwidth as possible.
Downtown Toronto actually has a lot of public wireless access points,
many of them marked and advertised as such. Of course, with a banker
and coffee shop density as high as it is in Toronto, you kind of need
that sort of access. You do have to have an account with one of the
providers to use it legally, of course.
Actually, in Canada there's recently been an agreement between the
four different wireless providers to co-operate in setting up such 'hot
spots' so that no matter which provider you're with, you can use any of
the hot spots around to hook up to the net. Was in the _Globe and Mail_
a few days ago.
From some of what I've heard, most parts of Europe have their networks
publicly owned still, so within a single country it should be fairly
consistent. No idea on how well that would work travelling between
countries, though.
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