[MLB-WIRELESS] Getting net access around town - Optus Mobile Connect / MacDonalds / Other options...

[James "Atreidae": Arber]

[MLB-WIRELESS] Getting net access around town - Optus Mobile Connect / MacDonalds / Other options...I always wondered about hot spots.. seems like a new way to hack, no need for proxy or anything walk away and no-one knows who you were

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: dean collins 
  To: Mike MacCana ; melbwireless at wireless.org.au ; syd-wireless-bounces at lists.sydneywireless.com 
  Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 4:11 PM
  Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Getting net access around town - Optus Mobile Connect / MacDonalds / Other options...


  Does anyone know whatever happened to Big Air here in Sydney?
  did Jason Ashton get of the ground or did it never go commercial? their web page doesn't seemed to have changed in a very long time.


  Cheers,
  Dean



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  From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au on behalf of Mike MacCana
  Sent: Thu 6/11/2003 3:15 PM
  To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
  Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Getting net access around town - Optus Mobile Connect / MacDonalds / Other options...


  Hey guys,

  A couple of questions:

  What's the best way to get (legal) internet access around town?

  * Optus Mobile Connect prices seem exorbitant at $10 an hour.

  * I haven't been able to find much current info on the Telstra /
  McDonalds wifi network

  * I'm not sure what other options there are round.

  How do they handle authentication at these places? AFAICT the Optus
  stuff seems to be by a web proxy, which should be pretty Linuxable. But
  anyone else have experience using these services with Linux?

  Mike
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