Plains Wifi Locations

[Mike Mezeul II]

Hey guys,
I'm putting together a list of Wifi locations to put on my GPS and was hoping everyone could help out. If you know of any Wifi hot spots throughout the plains, could you please post their locations?
Thanks!

 

[Jason Boggs]

I tried this once and didn't get too many responses. My thinking was, people don't want to give up their secret WIFI locations because if they did, others would be there using it instead of themselves. I guess I can sort of understand.

 

[Jayson Prentice]

Also in reality, you can find a wifi spot in nearly any location now a days. In my hometown of 400 people I can find 4 seperate locations that have available wifi, nearly any city with a hotel also has wifi available and most will allow you to use it even if you are afraid of the 'wardriving' type accusations and the such...

A list like this probably could have been very useful in previous years, but now with so many households, hotels and businesses going wireless there are wifi spots all over the plains states.

 

[Aaron Kennedy]

I used to maintain a list, but it became essentially worthless because of the fluidity in the wifi network. For instance, truckstop.net bit the dust, while networks at individual hotels seemed to fluctuate between being open for all, to needing a password for customers.

As Jayson mentioned, there are simply so many wifi networks now, I don't worry about it.

 

[Jason Boggs]

I agree. The town I'm from has 300 people if that, and I know of at least 4 WIFI hotspots. 2 of the 4 are public places.

 

[John Erwin]

Agreed, such a project is hard to maintain. There is several online resources though which might be of assistance, including http://www.jiwire.com/ although I don't know how up to date they are.

One thing I used to do was to plot the locations of sites that advertised hotspots such as certain truck stop chains, state rest stops etc. Was only of limited use to me though so I don't bother anymore.

These days simply scanning for hotspots seems to give satisfactory results, especially around "likely" locations like hotels/motels, truck stops or wherever.

 

[Wesley Luginbyhl]

If you can find internet like I have in a few of the really small panhandle towns, then you can find it anywhere. I have noticed schools are also another good place to drive by along with the usual hotels and gas stations. I tehter my alltel phone now so its really not a concern unless I am looking for high speed. As you drive into a town just start refreshing the available networks, something will always come up.

 

[Jerry Prsha]

Hey guys,
I'm putting together a list of Wifi locations to put on my GPS and was hoping everyone could help out. If you know of any Wifi hot spots throughout the plains, could you please post their locations?
Thanks!

A couple of years ago I installed an amplifier and external antenna on my vehicle to access WAPs while I was driving. The amount of open WAPs is pretty incredible actually. I can get e-mail while driving down the highway nowadays in what seems like the middle of nowhere. (I think farmers are surfing while in their combines or something.)

I really recommend this kind of setup rather than trying to find the WAPS and navigate to them. Of course... If you can afford the equipment.

Jp

 

[David Drummond]

Drive around with netstumbler on you will find dozens of them in the smallest towns and probably near 100 just driving through a main road of a major city. Open wifi is EVERYWHERE.