This came in from a ham radio friend here in Vermont who travels the east
coast a lot ... He sent this along in response to my forwarded note about
Starbucks' wireless installations at each of their North American sites.

Another person wrote to say that one has to purchase a starbucks product in
order to acquire an access card to use their service.  She also wrote
recommending community libraries as free wireless services.

SamC
SamC

Sam,
You might want to share this with your friends.  When I travel, I use these
websites (Google for more) to find "free" or "pay" WIFI sites
> http://www.jiwire.com  or http://www.wififreespot.com
> http://mobile.yahoo.com/wifi
 Drive down any neighborhood.  Most people do not shut off the broadcast
feature on their home WIFI.  In Burlington, Adelphia checks the student
ghetto, to suggest and show how, to shut off this feature.  Most tell them
to go to hell and let their neighbors have free internet.