Wireless Internet

In this day and age, we’re all going wireless; there’s no way we can’t. With communication speeding up and contact happening in seconds not minutes, decisions being made with the click of a mouse it’s a yea or a nay on a footfall; millions won or lost in a heartbeat; it’s so stunning it can take your breath away. So wireless has increased its rank in terms of necessity; fortunately wireless has also become a lot easier to manipulate and a lot easier to access. All you need to do is just reach out into the air and it’s there; it’s so facile it should be criminal.

Free wireless internet is the way more and more of us are doing it. It’s becoming less and less in public areas where wireless is intentionally free like a park, business district, office, hotel, or convention center and turning more into the piggybacking onto paying customers in nearby offices, buildings, or apartments. I have the luxury of both, living in direct wireless paths with a hotel that’s next door and having more than a few people in my building who haven’t locked down their connections yet.

But pretty soon the paying customers are going to get smart to the program and cut it off. Then we who are pirates are going to be left to fend for ourselves in a world with no handouts and it’s not going to be pretty. When mass exodus from the freebies of the world takes place, likely the first place they’ll find us at is a place called Verizon Wireless. In my neck of the woods Verizon is a prominent player of wireless internet providers. Likely where you are as well as many of the top companies (Verizon, Sprint Wireless internet, Cingular wireless internet) have taken a stranglehold over the competition to the point where there isn’t even much of a point for many of these other companies to hang around; unless they’re giving away some free internet, we’re all just likely to flee to a big name.

If you’re setting up wireless internet for a laptop, it’s really a rather simple matter of sticking your computer in the line of a wireless signal; whether that is at a public library, open campus university, I’ve even heard of an entire city, Charleston South Carolina that’s in discussion to go “all wireless.” Yeah, we’ll see how that goes. That’s really where we’re headed though and I can walk to any street corner in New York City and pick up a wireless signal anywhere; from the Northernmost reaches of Inwood to the Heart of Harlem to the Mess that’s Midtown and all the way down; even the perils of the Lower East Side (what? No train!?) are subject to the same treatment. Wireless signals abound. So I guess making satellite internet wireless service free sort of throws a wrench into competition; though it’s also a little Socialist. But hey, if we all want to share the same internet and have the government teaching us all how wireless internet works, that sounds just peachy to me!