[ale] wireless at Starbucks

Scott Castaline hscast at charter.net
Sat Jun 7 16:04:45 EDT 2008


Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> I stopped in to a local Starbucks as I'm waiting while the shop works  
> on my truck.  Fired up my laptop and it spotted two networks, tmobile  
> and AT&T.  For grins, I selected the AT&T network, then opened up my  
> browser which took me to an AT&T login page.  The page had a drop down  
> box for email address domains, which included bellsouth.net.  I  
> entered my bellsouth email address and password and Voila!  I'm on.  I  
> guess I have some wireless access with my dsl service that I wasn't  
> aware of.
>
> Anyway, I did this all under OSX, so I'm going to try it under Linux  
> next. ;)
>
> --
> Later, Geoffrey
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Just read in today's AJC business section, T-Mobile ain't too happy with 
Starbucks right now. It appears that AT&T is utilizing T-Mobile lines at 
no charge and that Starbucks is in violation with their contract, or 
whatever.


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