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Two years after installing it at 28 of Washington's 42 rest areas, the state Department of Transportation is pulling the plug on Wi-Fi.

The problem?

"We didn't have a lot of subscribers," said Transportation Department spokeswoman Melanie Coon.

That might have something to do with pricing. The rest area Wi-Fi cost $6.95 per day, $29.95 per month and a whopping $2.95 for just 15 minutes of use.

Coon couldn't say how many people paid to access the Web from rest areas. Those data are handled by the companies that set up the system - Parsons Transportation Group and Road Connect Inc.
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(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf®, the oldest and largest privately-held chain of specialty coffee and tea stores in the United States, announces that it will offer “totally free” Wi-Fi Internet access at virtually all company-owned stores. The company started installing the Wi-Fi units in July and many stores will have the wireless service by the end of August.

As more customers want to be online 24/7, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is making connectivity convenient. Whether customers are hooked up to The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf’s Internet to write a blog entry about their upcoming vacation or to edit a business presentation in the eleventh hour, they’ll be able to do it quickly and easily while enjoying a latte or pastry. Unlike many stores that require customers to take the time to enter usernames and password information, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Internet will be totally free and unrestricted without the hassle of creating an online account or using a credit card.

Scott Nicholson, director of operation services, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, stated, “We are thrilled to offer Wi-Fi Internet access to our consumers free from limitations. We know our consumers, especially the younger crowd, are looking for free, fast and unrestricted Web access and we’re happy to accommodate them. We want our stores to continue to be a friendly place where our consumers feel comfortable making the store a temporary office, a place to do homework or a place to chat online.”

The move to free wireless Internet means that wherever customers are they can count on The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf for uninhibited Internet use. Coffee and tea loving travelers, business people and locals are all encouraged to pull up a keyboard and utilize the totally free Internet.
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Strix Systems, a provider of wireless mesh networking, deployed its Strix Hot-Zone solution for Lazydays RV SuperCenter®, providing coverage over 100% of the 126-acre RV destination complex.

Established in 1976, Lazydays RV SuperCenter® is located on 126 acres outside Tampa, Florida, Lazydays has an 86,600 sq. ft. main building, 273 service bays, 300 RV campsites, more than 1,000 RVs on display and is the nation’s largest RV Service and Collision Center processing over 25,000 RVs annually. The property is also home to a Camping World store, Cracker Barrel restaurant and Flying J RV Travel Plaza.

RV sales consultants, on-site factory sales representatives and service personnel have instant wireless access over the network using a variety of wireless appliances including laptops, handhelds and other devices for interaction between sales representatives, service advisors, management and other personnel.

Lazydays is also host to one of the nation’s most popular RV destinations, “Rally Park.” This RV park features 300 paved RV sites with full amenities and free wireless Internet access over the Strix wireless network. Guests in their RVs can connect to the Internet. As a RallyPark customer many amenities are available without additional cost including meals, swimming pool, tennis courts and an assortment of concierge services.
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Over-the-Road Wireless For Dummies Learn how to get connected on the road. Covers WiFi, choosing equipment and services, protecting data, managing your business and personal affairs, enjoying online entertainment and more.

Q. We went camping this weekend and there was a sign at our campground saying that that we could not bring our own firewood. Is there a good reason for this, or is our campground just trying to gauge us on the price of wood? -Henry, Vermont
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A big round of applause for researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, who have just released an add-on for Firefox 3 that promises to restore your faith in the internet.

Perspectives employs a set of friendly sites that independently check whether they're receiving the same authentication information (digital certificates) from online banking, retail and other financial websites.

If one notary gets different information than the browser or other notaries, it is possible that an attacker has compromised the connection - either by 'spoofing' Domain Name System (DNS) entries or possibly because you've accidentally logged on to a malicous wi-fi hotspot pretending to a genuine provider. In either case, Perspectives will alert you.
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August 20, 2008 — CIO — In their quest to get Wi-Fi Internet connectivity, people have done some pretty desperate things over the years.

Driving around in sheer panic looking for a Starbucks (but hoping for a Panera, which offers free Wi-Fi) or hopping on a neighbor's unsecured signal has become commonplace.

But then there's a whole other level of desperation that comes while some people are searching for the almighty Wi-Fi access point. The evidence: an August 2008 survey of 300 remote employees who work on company-issued laptops. (The survey was commissioned by mobility vendor Fiberlink.)

The survey asked these road warriors: "What interesting or out of the ordinary things have you ever done to get connected to the Internet and/or company network, when working remotely?" Of the open-ended responses, here are the most noteworthy:
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Q:How can I keep somebody from snooping in my Gmail when I'm using a public Wi-Fi connection?

A: You should use an option that Google's popular Web-mail service finally began offering recently: a security setting that will switch your Gmail use to an encrypted, protected connection. When you log in to Gmail, click the "Settings" link at the top right of the page, scroll down until you see a "Browser connection" category, and click the button next to "Always use https."
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Hughsnet customers on old tiers note that despite the new satellite capacity, HughesNet actually lowered the FAP consumption limit for some users on their most popular Pro (1Mbps, $70) tier from 375 MB per day to 300 MB (forget HD films, P2P use or even many software updates). "They are altering the agreement," jokes one regular user in his best Darth Vader baritone. "Pray they do not alter it further."
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Several months ago, WBNS-TV (Channel 10) set up an experiment at Cafe Brioso, 14 E. Gay St., to determine how easy it is intercept the information that Wi-Fi users send and receive.

Those who took part in the test found out that digital-security experts armed with laptops and readily available software had no trouble eavesdropping on their transactions.

As the public's awareness of such breaches has grown, so has the popularity of Internet-security software packages promising wide-ranging protection against viruses, spyware, hackers and spam.

Companies such as McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro offer scores of security solutions and services. Overall, security-software sales topped $9.1 billion in 2007, up almost 11 percent from a year earlier.

Do such products make Wi-Fi users any safer?

To find out, WBNS went back to Cafe Brioso. This time, the guinea pig was Bill Watson of Pataskala.
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Aug. 6 2008 -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC, a provider of broadband satellite networks and services, today announced the launch of the fastest consumer broadband satellite Internet access plan ever offered. The ElitePremium plan, operating over the HughesNet(R) service and utilizing affordable consumer equipment, features download speeds of up to 5 Mbps and will be available to order August 21, 2008.

ElitePremium joins the newly unveiled Elite and ElitePlus plans with download speeds of up to 2 Mbps and 3 Mbps, respectively and the popular consumer plans -- Home, Pro, and ProPlus which feature recently increased download speeds of up to 1 Mbps, 1.2 Mbps and 1.6 Mbps, respectively.

"ElitePremium rounds out the most exciting range of satellite Internet access plans ever offered," said Mike Cook, senior vice president of sales and marketing for Hughes. "Over the last few weeks we have enhanced the speeds across our full range of service plans. We are the only provider that offers consumers in underserved parts of the country such a comprehensive range of true broadband service options."

The enhanced speed of the ElitePremium plan is made possible by the launch of Hughes’ SPACEWAY(TM) 3 satellite, the largest satellite in the US and the world’s first commercial satellite with on-board switching and routing. SPACEWAY 3 has the greatest total capacity of any commercial satellite, which fuels the faster speeds. SPACEWAY 3 was launched in August of 2007 and began serving customers in April of 2008.

With more than 400,000 subscribers, HughesNet is the leading broadband satellite Internet service in the United States. For more information about HughesNet services and the new ElitePremium plan, please visit hughesnet.com or call 1-866-859-2268.
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Say, for example, you’re in your favorite coffee shop and turn on your mobile device and see there’s a Wi-Fi net present—say, something like “Acme-wireless.” You see it’s not using WEP, so you blindly and courageously take the leap of faith and connect to it.

Once on the wireless, you bring up your browser and try to connect to a Web site. Looks fine, so you login to that web site, perhaps providing your login credentials (or a browser-stored cookie containing your login credentials). Away you go—and away your login credentials go. You’ve just fallen for the oldest trick in the book, the dreaded “man in the middle attack,” and your attacker now has your credentials/cookie.

How could that have happened, you ask? Well, when you signed onto “Acme-wireless,” you trusted that it was indeed “Acme-wireless” and that it is operated by an honest business. The only proof you had that it was indeed “Acme-wireless” was that it said so.

You’ve been duped.
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