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Hotspot Hopping With a PDA
Thursday, 05 August 2004, 10:25 GMT

During the course of one recent afternoon, a group of kids threw ketchup on me. I experienced awful indigestion. And I looked like a complete nerd at one of the hippest places in town.

I endured it all for you, dear reader.

In my tireless efforts to bring you useful information, I went hotspot hopping around San Francisco, one of our more Wi-Fi-savvy cities. My goal: To discover how easy (or challenging) it would be to make a wireless Internet connection using a Wi-Fi-enabled PDA at various commercial hotspots.

I've used my notebook at commercial hotspots before. But this time around, I chose a PDA for my tests. More models today come with Wi-Fi networking built in. And PDAs, because they're far easier to carry than notebooks, seem like an ideal tool for hotspot jumpers.

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