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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / March 2006Apple ibook G4 question
I bought an Apple ibook G4 one year ago for traveling use. I use dial up modem at home for the internet connection. I did have the airport extreme card installed to my ibook G4. What else do I need to do in order to use my ibook G4 wirelessley when I TRAVEL? In the National Airport, when I turned on my airport card for signal, it showed only the airport's information homepage. When I landed at another airport in another city, my ibook G4 can simply display this airport's information page. I was not able to surf the internet with my airport extrem card on while waiting for another flight. My friend uses DSL service at home and with her Dell llabtop, when traveling, she can use free internet in the hotel, airport, etc. I don't know anyone else familiar with Mac. I hope the group can give me some advice. Thanks. > I bought an Apple ibook G4 one year ago for traveling use. I use dial > up modem at home for the internet connection. I did have the airport [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > the hotel, airport, etc. I don't know anyone else familiar with Mac. I > hope the group can give me some advice. Thanks. Are you sure those airports actually have wireless internet access? It's becoming common for such access to be available, but there's no guarantee-- you need to check on the specific airport.  SignatureTom "Tom" Harrington Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X. Version 2.0: Delocalize, Repair Permissions, lots more. See http://www.atomicbird.com/ > > I bought an Apple ibook G4 one year ago for traveling use. I use dial > > up modem at home for the internet connection. I did have the airport [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > It's becoming common for such access to be available, but there's no > guarantee-- you need to check on the specific airport. If you can see the airport's info page, then your wireless stuff is working and there is a 'hot-spot'. Most of the time, they sit there waiting for you to send them outrageous quantities of money. There are services that supply long term access to 'public' access points, usually for astronomically lousy value for money. SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 > In the National > Airport, when I turned on my airport card for signal, it showed only [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > the hotel, airport, etc. I don't know anyone else familiar with Mac. I > hope the group can give me some advice. Thanks. Spring- It depends on the airport and the hotel, etc. Keep trying! Some airports, coffee shops, bookstores have a subscription service. If you travel a lot, it might pay you to subscribe to one of the more common services. I saw a note about a wireless hotspot in the window of a local UPS Package Mailing store. It turned out to require the subscription, but allowed access at many different places. If you have such a store, check it out. There are also web sites dedicated to hotspots that are free. Do a search for "wireless hotspots", "war chalking" or "war driving" and see what you find. One I found was http://www.wi-fihotspotlist.com/browse/ which includes subscription sites. Another was http://www.wififreespot.com/ This one is restricted to the U.S., but has airport information at http://www.wififreespot.com/airport.html. Fred (Cross-posted to comp.sys.mac.comm.) > I bought an Apple ibook G4 one year ago for traveling use. I use dial > up modem at home for the internet connection. I did have the airport [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > the hotel, airport, etc. I don't know anyone else familiar with Mac. I > hope the group can give me some advice. Thanks. If you want a simple bit of software to check on "hot spots" try MacStumbler or iStumbler. I have the former and its freeware. SignatureThanks and regards, Shane. "A closed mouth gathers no feet!" Email: Beware the invalid word! shane at wonk dot demon dot co dot uk Website: http://www.wonk.demon.co.uk/ > I bought an Apple ibook G4 one year ago for traveling use. I use dial > up modem at home for the internet connection. I did have the airport [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > the hotel, airport, etc. I don't know anyone else familiar with Mac. I > hope the group can give me some advice. Thanks. The directions on how to get wireless access at those airports are probably on the information pages that you saw. If you're in that situation again, try reading the page or asking at the airport's information desk for assistance. |
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