Category: wifi

4 May 2008

PhoneBoy’s Week That Was 4 May 2008

Filed under: gadgets, nokia, voip, wifi - 04 May 2008

PhoneBoyWe’ve come to the end of another week of posts. It looks like I’m going to continue to crank out these posts, mostly because the automated methods to do this aren’t as attractive …

20 March 2008

WTR45GS Finally Has Useful Firmware

Filed under: gadgets, travel, wifi - 20 Mar 2008

Linksys WTR54GS - Share on OviA while ago, I had purchased a Linksys WTR54GS as a travel companion. It is a fairly serviceable …

11 February 2008

Starbucks WiFi To Become AT&T WiFi Locations

Filed under: mobile network operators, wifi - 11 Feb 2008

I can’t say I saw this coming, but the word is out that Starbucks shreds their hotspot deal with T-Mobile and goes with AT&T. The good news is that T-Mobile customers will still be able to use the Starbucks …

11 January 2008

If You Don’t Want To Share, Lock The Access Point!

Filed under: wifi - 11 Jan 2008

You know, I’m getting sick and tired of seeing the whole debate about whether or not people who are accessing an open WiFi access point are “stealing.” Give me a break. If you don’t want people using your WiFi, configure …

28 December 2007

Rethinking Frankenrouters

Filed under: gadgets, wifi - 28 Dec 2007

WRT54GA while ago, I had replaced a Linksys WRT54G with a Netgear switch and a D-Link DWL-G730AP. One day last week, this router stopped being able to get on the WDS

4 November 2007

PhoneBoy’s Week That Was 4 November 2007

Filed under: entertainment, gadgets, phoneboy, spam, voip, wifi - 04 Nov 2007

PhoneBoy ThumbnailThis old intermission from a Drive In movie theater pretty much sums up my opinion on Daylight Saving Time (yes, it’s that time again in the US).

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt1pRAT63×4[/video]

Meanwhile, here’s this

26 October 2007

Should You Get A WiFi-Enabled Mobile Phone?

Filed under: gadgets, mobile network operators, wifi - 26 Oct 2007

N91Let’s Talk asked through the Techdirt Insight Community about why consumers might want to get a WiFi-enabled mobile phone. From what I can tell, my “insight” was posted more or less un-edited

22 October 2007

An Interesting Way To Do Public WiFi

Filed under: wifi - 22 Oct 2007

WiFi TicketI took my car into the dealer last week in order to have the heater fixed. It was working, but it needed to be turned on full blast. Since …

19 September 2007

Alaska Airlines Adding WiFi

Filed under: connectivity, wifi - 19 Sep 2007

Alaska AirlinesI’ve been getting a little jealous of word that American Airlines was going to add WiFi in their planes. American Airlines is not an airline I usually take. I would have …

12 September 2007

WRE54G as an Access Point?

Filed under: linux, wifi - 12 Sep 2007

WRE54GWhen my son had a Nintendo DS–he lost it someplace he shouldn’t have had it in the first place–he kept bugging me about how he couldn’t get on the WiFi (or as he …

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