Ray Jenkins <rayj.baltDELETE@verizondotnet> wrote:
Unless you are talking about wireless, the card is irrelevant. I was
talking about ethernet. Maybe some cafes have wireless, but I've never
seen it, probably because anybody could sit on the pavement outside and
use it ...
Uh, usually you buy either a cafe and 30mins, for maybe 3 or 4 dollars
(euros), or more time and more sustenance, which works out cheaper if
you sit there for a while at a time. It depends on the region. My last
experience was in Nice, France a month or so ago, and I generally used
about an hour at a time and had something to drink while there. It cost
maybe 50% more than an ordinary cafe, but the region is ultra expensive
anyway, so I didn't notice. Americans wandering in tended to just use
the workstations with their mswindows setup, which maybe was a bit
cheaper. I don't know. On their net I don't recall if I needed to get
an IP by dhcp or not - it was clear I think I recall from the packets
passing by what their setup was, and it was a NAT router translating
packets from the local net (192.168.something), so all I had to do was
name their router as gateway, select an unused IP, and set it as an IP
alias for it on my ethernet device. Probably that all happens
automatically if you use windows.
Peter
