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Starpoint · by **Starpoint** » Tue May 30, 2006 6:55 am

I am sure we all have our favorite wifi spot (other than our home) like a coffee house, bar etc..

How about we list the ones we as law abiding wardrivers have verified as free legal hot spots with a brief description, location (both in address and GPS )?

Did some searching on these places just in my city and the list is very much out of date not to mention that its very vague.

possibly an online db here or on COWF?

streaker69 · by **streaker69** » Tue May 30, 2006 6:59 am

I can do something like that. It isn't a big deal to write a quickie database for that information.

Let me know what fields you'd like to have populated in the database and I'll put it together.

Dutch · by **Dutch** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:19 am

streaker69 wrote:I can do something like that. It isn't a big deal to write a quickie database for that information.

Let me know what fields you'd like to have populated in the database and I'll put it together.

My suggestion for fields:
Establishmentname : I.E. Bill's Coffee and Cake shop
Address : Selfexplanatory
City : Selfexplanatory
Country : Selfexplanatory
Establishmenttype : Coffeshop, Bar, Restaurant, etc
GPS lat : Gps lat in Decimal
GPS lon : Gps lon in Decimal
Comment : Free text for info on such things as using encryption, favourite beverage served, goodlooking waitresses, etc etc.

No need for SSID imho, as people should ask for it in the establishment.

Dutch

Starpoint · by **Starpoint** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:27 am

Dutch typed faster than me on those requirements

and yeah.. are the waitresses cute.

Can be useful for you travel techs if you know in advance about connections.
What got me started on this was when Beakmyn came to Houston, he had researched hotels near where his job had him for internet and wifi. He did find a place that took care of both needs (and allowed him to upload that huge amount of AP's he got when I gave him the "fiddy cent" tour of Houston, Galveston etc.)

As we find more legit free wifi spots we can populate them in

Dutch · by **Dutch** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:36 am

Starpoint wrote:Ok..
how about fields for:
Name of place
location (city,state GPS location) gps can be optional
Hours of operations
type of establishment : (coffee house, resteraunt, bar, etc..)
pricing ranges
connection speeds.

Can be useful for you travel techs if you know in advance about connections.
What got me started on this was when Beakmyn came to Houston, he had researched hotels near where his job had him for internet and wifi. He did find a place that took care of both needs (and allowed him to upload that huge amount of AP's he got when I gave him the "fiddy cent" tour of Houston, Galveston etc.)

As we find more legit free wifi spots we can populate them in

You need to type faster..

Connection speeds would be a redundant field IMHO.. Who cares if you are connected with 11 mb/s or 54 mb/s while enjoying your double-chocolate-mocha-latte-with-a-lemon-twist? The internet pipe they are having will normally be in the standard DSL speed ranges anyhow.

The pricing range, is that of the beverages/foods, or of the price for using the hotspot ? I mean do we want it to be a combined restaurant/cafe priceguide ? A better field to add would be a boolean for Free when purchasing beverages or food/Additional charges for Internet usages. The latter would be when the Hotspot in the establishment would be operated by something like T-mobile, Telia Homerun or other hotspot operators like that.

Dutch

streaker69 · by **streaker69** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:38 am

[quote="Dutch"]You need to type faster.. ]

How about a place to upload a PDF of the menu?

Dutch · by **Dutch** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:46 am

[quote="streaker69"]How about a place to upload a PDF of the menu? ]
Knowing the crowd here, it'll not be PDF's of the menu, but jpegs of the waitresses that get uploaded. Especially if Hooters got WiFi for the patrons...

Dutch

wrzwaldo · by **wrzwaldo** » Tue May 30, 2006 7:56 am

Dutch wrote:Knowing the crowd here, it'll not be PDF's of the menu, but jpegs of the waitresses that get uploaded. Especially if Hooters got WiFi for the patrons...

Dutch

RX Diversity?

streaker69 · by **streaker69** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:38 am

URL would be good, Just in case the spot as their own webpage.

Barry · by **Barry** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:43 am

wrzwaldo wrote:RX Diversity?

Great now we're measuring the size in dBi... So that makes Thorn's nurse like what 15.4 dBi?

Starpoint · by **Starpoint** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:04 am

Dutch wrote:Knowing the crowd here, it'll not be PDF's of the menu, but jpegs of the waitresses that get uploaded. Especially if Hooters got WiFi for the patrons...

Dutch

Ahh.. wait till I take a few photo's of the "Beer Goddess's" of The Flying Saucer.

Small waife like ladies that dress in very short skirts, and knee high stockings..

Will get photos this weekend I promise

Dutch · by **Dutch** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:47 pm

Barry wrote:Great now we're measuring the size in dBi... So that makes Thorn's nurse like what 15.4 dBi?

Let's just say that she is definitely violating the FCC regs for Point-to-Point connections, and leave it at that...

Dutch

Barry · by **Barry** » Tue May 30, 2006 2:55 pm

Dutch wrote:Let's just say that she is definitely violating the FCC regs for Point-to-Point connections, and leave it at that...

Dutch

That would explain the heat when you walk past her... :eek:

Dutch · by **Dutch** » Tue May 30, 2006 3:01 pm

Barry wrote:That would explain the heat when you walk past her...

Imagine how hot you get, if you pressed your face between her "antennae"... Which explains some of Thorn's post actually...

Dutch

Thorn · by **Thorn** » Tue May 30, 2006 3:12 pm

Dutch wrote:Imagine how hot you get, if you pressed your face between her "antennae"... Which explains some of Thorn's post actually...

Dutch

Mmmmph!

Huh? What? Did you say something, Dutch?

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