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If you want to connect multiple devices to the Internet while travelling, a 3G Wi-Fi hotspot can be the perfect solution. Planhacker rounds up the prepaid contenders available from major carriers.
A 3G Wi-Fi hotspot lets you share your Internet connection with all your devices at once, and many are now offered as part of a prepaid bundle. Planhacker rounds up the contenders.
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If you’d like to pull down a strong Wi-Fi signal wherever you are, this simple but effective hack turns a router, a solar panel and a cigar box into a portable Wi-Fi hotspot that repeats any open Wi-Fi network it finds.
Windows only: Connectify, the app that quickly turns a Windows 7 laptop into a Wi-Fi hotspot for other devices, has been regularly issuing new betas for a 2.1 version, which both automates more of the hotspot creation process and provides more support for tricky network setups, like bridged network adaptors, tethered connections and resistant wireless network hardware.
Starbucks is offering free Wi-Fi to all customers in Canada and the US starting today. Whether you’re clicking connect on your local cafe’s Wi-Fi or some other insecure, public Wi-Fi network, here’s how to stay safe and secure while surfing a public hotspot.
Back in March, we showed you Laptopfriendlycafes.com, which helped you track down independent purveyors of coffee who also offered Wi-Fi and power on the side. Now iPhone owners can do their research direct from their phone with a dedicated app.
Windows: Windows 7 was supposed to have some rather cool Wi-Fi sharing tools installed, the kind that would let other devices and computers jump onto one computer’s ethernet or Wi-Fi connection. A free Connectify beta brings that helpful feature back.
Queenslanders will be waiting a while for Wi-Fi on trains, and now Adelaide has stolen a jump on BrisVegas, rolling out a bus which includes free Wi-Fi services for all the passengers.
As hotspot plans go, this is potentially a doozy: Citytrain in Queensland plans to offer free Wi-Fi access to commuters on trains and at railway stations in 2010.
Good news for sporting types planning on hitting a few events at the Melbourne Cricket Ground: the MCG is now offering free Wi-Fi throughout the venue, courtesy of a deal with Internode. I wouldn’t necessarily advise taking a notebook PC to a match, but it’s a handy way to tweet for free if you’ve got a suitably-equipped phone. If you’ve tested out the coverage on the ground, let us know what it’s like in the comments. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Internode
