Can Starbucks iPhone WiFi account be used by other compute..

"C. Sowash" <csowash.TakeThisOut@nospamComcast.net> wrote in
news:LqKdnRY8h5zj_8vUnZ2dnUVZ_jSdnZ2d@giganews.com:

> Is it possible to connect through Starbucks AT&T iPhone WiFi account
> using a regular computer rather than an iPhone? When you use your
> iPhone you have to fill in your phone number and get a txt message
> with a link to click to enable access. However, Easy WiFi eliminates
> the need to get the txt message, and it logs you in directly. Is it
> possible to do the same thing with a notebook computer rather than an
> iPhone?
>

http://www.tamos.com/htmlhelp/commwifi/scanner.htm
Why not run a scanner so you can find all the free ones better than
Starbucks? That way you can buy coffee priced under a dollar and still
have free wifi without being ripped off by Starbucks.

The Commview scanner works great in a laptop. Most free wifi hotspots
post the name of their host store/shop so you don't have to guess where
to go for free wifi. Paying for wifi to Starbucks or any place else is
just stupid with the airwaves full of free service any more.....

Install Commview's scanner on your laptop. Boot it or leave it running
in the car as you cruise around and it will load and log all the free
wifi hotspots you drive by, storing them to the log file. You'll be
amazed what's on the air for free....

Even places that don't have free wifi are near places with free wifi you
can use. RF doesn't know enough to stop at walls. Hell, I can connect
to Staples' free wifi all the way across the parking lot inside iHop if
iHop's wifi is down. This depends on how good a wifi transceiver is in
your laptop. They vary widely.

We used to warchalk the wifi hotspots we found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warchalking
but there's so many of them, now, it's totally unnecessary.

If you see W4CSC on your list of open nodes, please help yourself. My
free wifi node is 50' up a tree in an inverted plastic bucket so the
troops at the Air Force base can reach it from the enlisted barracks and
get broadband. They're using Pringle's can antennas over a mile away:
http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/has.html
Building wifi antennas to see how far from a hotspot you can still use
it is great fun. You'll get some funny looks when you set up your
tripod and Pringles cantenna in Starbucks, pointed out the window to the
free wifi at the restaurant or hotel across the street....(c;]