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From: Scott Meyer (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 16:54:08 EDT
At 05:12 PM 7/13/2005 -0700, Richard Bradshaw wrote:
>I think we had connectivity at two hotels where I was able to receive
>email early in the trip. One "said" they did but couldn't connect and
>maintain a connection long enough to do anything. Another said they
>did but found it only in their lobby. One place wanted us to disable
>our encryption (WEP) before we could get online. (We declined.)
WEP only secures the wireless service against unauthorized use.
A wireless hub without WEP is usable by anyone. Since secure
transactions are secured by a different layer of encryption (SSL)
there is no loss of security in using a "public" wireless hub
to connect to the internet.
>This got us to thinking about how it will be when cruising. We will
>need to have communication due to health problems/ages of relatives.
My experience (2 years around the Pacific) is that internet cafes
are almost everywhere and nearly all of them allow one to
hook up a laptop. If you're doing online banking, your own
laptop is the way to go because there's no chance of leaving
private information in the cache or history of a public machine.
Some places have wireless hotspots, but it is usually more
economical to take the laptpp to a cafe.
-Scott
Scott Meyer mailto: http://www.summ.org/
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