Wireless Internet Access

I will be staying at a hotel in Cancun next week. They have an Internet cafe
on site and charge exhorbitant per minute fees as they want you to rent their
desk top computers. A friend told me to just bring my laptop with me and sit
near the Internet cafe and I might be able to acces the Internet without
paying their fees. Do I need to set anythng up on my laptop or does it
connect automatically?

If the Internet Cafe uses a secure wireless w/encryption which requires a password,
you can sit there all day and never get a wireless connection. I would not
have much faith in doing what your friend suggests.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"rlastar" <rlastar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:07445D2B-FC43-45D6-90CC-94304BD6E351@microsoft.com...
I will be staying at a hotel in Cancun next week. They have an Internet cafe
on site and charge exhorbitant per minute fees as they want you to rent their
desk top computers. A friend told me to just bring my laptop with me and sit
near the Internet cafe and I might be able to acces the Internet without
paying their fees. Do I need to set anythng up on my laptop or does it
connect automatically?

Let's assume they don't use a secure wireless w/encryption. Would I need to
set anything up on my laptop?

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> If the Internet Cafe uses a secure wireless w/encryption which requires a password,
> you can sit there all day and never get a wireless connection. I would not
> have much faith in doing what your friend suggests.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "rlastar" <rlastar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:07445D2B-FC43-45D6-90CC-94304BD6E351@microsoft.com...
> I will be staying at a hotel in Cancun next week. They have an Internet cafe
> on site and charge exhorbitant per minute fees as they want you to rent their
> desk top computers. A friend told me to just bring my laptop with me and sit
> near the Internet cafe and I might be able to acces the Internet without
> paying their fees. Do I need to set anythng up on my laptop or does it
> connect automatically?

Open Vista's Help and Support and type: Wireless Networking
and press your Enter key. Then click on the topic titled:
"Wireless Network - Frequently Asked Questions"

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"rlastar" <rlastar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2E19E507-3264-4E11-9294-3AB34F03E1DE@microsoft.com...
Let's assume they don't use a secure wireless w/encryption. Would I need to
set anything up on my laptop?

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:

> If the Internet Cafe uses a secure wireless w/encryption which requires a password,
> you can sit there all day and never get a wireless connection. I would not
> have much faith in doing what your friend suggests.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "rlastar" <rlastar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:07445D2B-FC43-45D6-90CC-94304BD6E351@microsoft.com...
> I will be staying at a hotel in Cancun next week. They have an Internet cafe
> on site and charge exhorbitant per minute fees as they want you to rent their
> desk top computers. A friend told me to just bring my laptop with me and sit
> near the Internet cafe and I might be able to acces the Internet without
> paying their fees. Do I need to set anythng up on my laptop or does it
> connect automatically?