Technology for Mortals

I travel quite a bit these days because of my job, and I have been noticing more and more than I can get AT&T hotspot service at places like Starbucks or many airports and some hotels.  In the past, one would have to pay $20 per month for T-Mobile hotspot services or cough up $10 or more per day for Wi-Fi access.  Now if you’re an AT&T DSL customer, you get this service for free which is really convenient.  Even if you have 2G or 3G data service, you will still want to use the much lower latency Wi-Fi access when it is available.

While this Wi-Fi service is nothing new and I’m not making news here, it’s good to point this out for people since not everyone knows about it.  The coverage seems to be getting better over time.  So if you’re already an AT&T DSL customer, simply use your username and the domain you belong to which you can pull down from a menu such as SBCGlobal.net.  Then you use the same DSL password you use for your PPPoE account.