> >>>>>> Ken Welter wrote:

 >>>>>>
 >>>>>>>    Another thing that everyone needs to do is to push there
 >>>>  local
 >>>>>>> airport management to install wi-fi if they don't have it.
 >>>>>>>   Many airports I have been to have it from ether the port
 >>>>  or from the
 >>>>>>> FBO and it makes it nice to pop up weather file flight
 >>>>  plans and to
 >>>>>>> pickup your email.
 >>>>>>>   Soon it will be the norm and all airports will have it.
 >>>>>
 >>>>>
 >>>>>> I'm supposed to install an 802.11g (54Mb/s) system at New
 >>>>  Braunfels
 >>>>>> (BAZ) early next year.
 >>>>>>
 >>>>>> Russell Kent

 >>> géraldine berger-yvon cournoyer wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>>  What does wi-fi means in standard English? Please.
 >>>>  Yvon.

 >>    Wireless, if your laptop don't have it built in you can get a USB
 >> port wi-fi and you are wireless.
 >>   A lot of people that get a cable access just have the box put in the
 >> closest location and they then hook up a wi-fi box to it and then put
 >> a wi-fi box on all their computers in the house and their lap tops so
 >> they don't have to run wiring throughout the house.
 >>   The nice thing about this is that those waves go right through the
 >> walls and out in space and anyone can pick them up and use them.
 >>   Here in Portland the port has set up a net that will cover the whole
 >> water front and the mass transit train line.
 >>   Also nearly all coffee shop have them and they are free except for
 >> Starbucks which charges for it and in addition a lot of restaurants
 >> and hotels have it for free.
 >>
 >>    Ken

 I was told Ft Lauderdale Executive has it and you can pull up in your plane,
 get the weather email, etc without getting off the plane and go on your way.
 Bulent

   Yes I have found many small airports have it not to mention the big
ones like PDX have it though the entire terminal.
   Also flying at 2000 ft over the city I can pickup nodes and access
the Internet however it does blink in and out.

   Ken

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