There has to be a better name for it than that, but that's what I did today, without really meaning to. I took my iBook with me on a long bus ride up the East Side (from 11th St. to 72nd on the M-15 up 1st Ave.) so I could write a review due this afternoon on my way to a medical appointment. Not long after I booted up the iBook, the icon in my menu bar informed me I was in receiving range of at least one wireless network. As the traffic got heavier and the bus fell further and further behind schedule (casuing me to miss the appointment, but that's neither here nor there) I had more and more time to check out the network activity. There wasn't a single point between 11th and 72nd where I couldn't find at least one hotspot, and while many of them were commerical (Verizon, T-Mobile) and about half of the rest had WEP encryption, I was online for almost the entire duration of the trip and, once I finished writing the review, was able to email it to my editor a couple of hours earlier than I had expected I'd be able to. Coverage was almost as good coming down 2nd Ave. on the way back, though I bailed at 42nd to jump on the subway because the traffic was just too much to bear after awhile.
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