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...Going wireless in an RV park is not without problems, of course. "It's not yet plug and play," admits Stumberg, 36, who co-founded his company two years ago, after a lonely trip to Mexico when he came to appreciate two words in Spanish: Tengo Internet (translation: We've got Internet). At the RV park, Mac users report having the easiest time going wireless, and Microsoft XP works dandy too, while Millennium is nearly useless. Tight living quarters can play havoc with reception. Microwaving lunch while surfing wirelessly is a sure way to get disconnected. To keep out snoops...
...fact, wi-fi in an RV park tends to attract more users than the pool. When Kara and Jesse Cox moved from wireless Waxahachie, Texas, to Austin so Jesse could finish his last semester at the University of Texas, the first thing they did after pulling up in their 28-ft. mobile home was hook up the electricity and charge the computer (which Jesse, a physics major, built himself). EverQuest came even before the water connection. "Our lives are on that computer," admits Jesse. "Being young, we have to have our Internet." Although he kids Kara about her gaming addiction...
Warchalking began a couple of years ago in London, and has since spread to the sidewalks of Seattle, New York City and San Francisco. Wireless guerrillas walk or drive around a city with wi-fi--enabled laptops, sniffing out wireless networks. They leave hieroglyphs that, to the untrained eye, look like graffiti. The symbols not only alert those in the know to a hot spot but also reveal how fast the network is and whether it requires a password. No password required for me--hence the open-faced moons...
Ulbrick, 28, wasn't there for the frothy $3 lattes or even the shop's mellow atmosphere. He came for the high-speed wireless Internet access--and he's willing to pay $30 a month to get it. "I would not be here if they didn't have wireless," he says. "I don't like Starbucks coffee. Honestly, I don't like their pastries either--although I'll buy a cookie so I don't feel too unethical...
Penny-pinching students like Ulbrick aren't exactly what Starbucks had in mind when it partnered with T-Mobile last year to roll out wireless Internet access in its shops across the country. Now with more than 2,600 Starbucks stores equipped with wi-fi, the duo has created the largest public wi-fi network in the U.S. It is also among the first to test consumers' appetite for paid wireless access outside the home...