David Johnstone wrote:
Danglerb wrote:
We are all moderate net junkies, checking menus, shop hours and
locations, google earth, checking here to see about wifi, 3x many hour
a day habits all going cold turkey. Even if we do many many searches
before leaving and print them out, or stick them on the palm, we get
this disconnected feeling when we can't look for things we are used to.

Know the feeling :-)

I will be taking at least an old palm, M515, for games and books, but
its too old for wifi tricks I think. We will also be getting a new
laptop for our son to use this fall in school, so bumping the purchase
ahead a month and taking it with us seemed like a good option.

I have a cheapo PDA that I've upgraded to WLAN for travel with a WLAN
SD card; you need at least an SD (SDIO) or CF slot. It works well for
email, really light and compact and long battery life, screen a bit
small for surfing the net though. But of course there are other better
groups for technical stuff.


I will take a look at your thread.

Still really annoyed with Holiday Inn, L80 a night should have wifi
included.

Yeah, it ****es me off too when businesses like hotels and
restaurants expect *customers* to pay really high prices for WLAN.
The infrastructure costs are minimal for them. I was assuming
that you know sites like hotspot-locations.com where you can
search for well-known free hotspots?

David

Just using Jiwire.com for now, will try the hotspot-locations.com

I have a Palm M515 I bought, and put in a new 1000 mah battery and 1 GB
SD card into, mostly just for this trip so my wife could leave her M515
at home. I wonder if getting a WiFi for it is practical?