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May. 5th, 2005 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhienellethQuestion which I'm sure some of you laptop people will have answer to:
When we received our laptops, they were wireless-ready. Having looked online, I know that wireless service is different from dial-up, DSL, and cable, and there are service providers to which you can pay $21.95/month for the privelege of using it. Well, when we turned on the laptops and played with all the icons, our wireless automatically searched and found what it called an "open access" wireless connection in the area, and we were able to go online and surf around for free. Mark also recently attended a conference in Portland, and at his hotel he was able to get online and check his e-mail and the like, also without paying a dime.
This can't be legal, right? But if it isn't, why is it so easy to do? Literally you connect, click on IE and go. Is it supposed to work like this?
When we received our laptops, they were wireless-ready. Having looked online, I know that wireless service is different from dial-up, DSL, and cable, and there are service providers to which you can pay $21.95/month for the privelege of using it. Well, when we turned on the laptops and played with all the icons, our wireless automatically searched and found what it called an "open access" wireless connection in the area, and we were able to go online and surf around for free. Mark also recently attended a conference in Portland, and at his hotel he was able to get online and check his e-mail and the like, also without paying a dime.
This can't be legal, right? But if it isn't, why is it so easy to do? Literally you connect, click on IE and go. Is it supposed to work like this?
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Date: 2005-05-05 04:35 pm (UTC)