In Wi-Fi wonderland

I had read a little about Wi-Fi - shorthand for Wireless Fidelity - and hot spots, and it sounded like something I might want to look into. When the Capri Coffee Break shop at West 12th Avenue and Speer Boulevard in Denver opened in August, I began patronizing the newest franchise of the Windsor-based chain on a regular basis. I like the coffee, the prices, the atmosphere, the service and the background music. And when they began advertising free Wi-Fi, I decided I had to give it a try. I soon would find it wasn't as complex or difficult as I had feared.

Since I was in a hurry to try it, I rushed to Radio Shack on my lunch hour to see if I could buy what I needed. The salesman was very helpful and showed me adapter cards for my laptop computer, a Chembook 3830 with a Pentium III running at 1GHz that I acquired in late 2001.

I bought a WPC54G Wireless-G Notebook Adapter made by Linksys, a subsidiary of Cisco, for $79.99. You can buy it cheaper elsewhere, but as I said, I was in a hurry.

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