Gov plans to make every library a wi-fi hotspot http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/34352.html
Could be good for Thursday Norwich meetings.
Yes, my thought too! May not be for a couple of years tho'.
Find other hotspots on http://www.wifinder.com/ which I saw advertised at Cafe Java, Surrey Street, Norwich, although I didn't see that listed(!).
Great link, thanks. Lists 9 spots for Norwich but does not include Starbucks or the Unthank Arms so there may be even more.
Most of them are part of "The Cloud" which, according to this story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33361.html are expanding services and coverage rapidly.
(Digression: this competition may be part of the explanation for BT's recent announcement of huge numbers of trigger levels, many of which are almost unobtainable e.g. requiring 30-50% of all households on an exchange to register).
I'm still waiting for some wifi kit to try any of these.
I have use a wi-fi card at home with the laptop but haven't yet tried it anywhere else yet. Mainly because it is too expensive, even for a trial run. If I'm going to fritter away six quid I'd rather go to Cafe Rouge :-)
Hopefully at some point the pricing structure will change and we can get a simple pay-as-you-go card, as with mobile phones. And I want to be able to pay by data-transfer not for connection time.
Syd