Wireless Hot Spots
I admire modern people. They can go through their lives with what seems like an easy and electronic solution to everything.
While I sit at Starbucks at the mall with packages, my bag, and my camera gear all around me, sipping on my Cafe Mocha, wondering if a waited important email has come through in my absence from my computer, I usually can see a modern person at the next table, neatly on a laptop or some other ridiculously small gadget managing their affairs and lives with no hassle. This can replay itself at airports and many other areas.
I always think, “I wouldn’t mind that option, but I wouldn’t even know how to start.”
Even though I consider myself so far removed from being that “modern”, I do pay attention and try to learn, “just in case.”
Recently on a trip to Wisconsin, we took my daughter’s laptop, and we had a small taste of being wireless, connected, and neatly able to download and read our emails without being at home.
Wireless hotspots have been showing up all over the country this year. A great place to find one in your own area is to visit Wifi Free Spot. For a quick reference of all 50 states and Europe, go to WiFiFreeSpot.com. Here you can learn of places in your area, or places you will visit that can help keep you connected!
A trip to Wisconsin?? WHY DEAR GOD WHY would you come to this horrid state?? Especially in the winter. You must really be out of your mind.
As for the WiFi, I didn’t know Cathedral Square in Milwaukee had free WiFi… maybe I’ll take a trip downtown sometime with my laptop to see how it is. I love places with free wireless. There’s a small cafe down the street from campus that offers free wireless access. Of course, it’s suggested that if you’re going to stay for any amount of time, you should at least buy *something* like a smoothie or a coffee.
I love wifi! I just don’t like paying for it. If you go to a Starbucks, they provide service through T-Mobile and charge $9 for a 24 hour period (the smallest increment available). Barnes and Noble uses another carrier and let’s you purchase just a couple of hours’ of wifi access for $3.95, much more reasonable. But the best deals are FREE. Yesterday, I took my grandma out to lunch at a place called Panera (www.panerabread.com). They offer free wifi access at all of their locations. And they have great food, too. I’m going to keep my eyes out for more free wifi hotspots and frequent those establishments as much as possible.