Re: Wi-Fi Newbie Question

On Sat, 24 May 2008 13:00:59 -0500, DTC <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

gmark99@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I've looked over a lot of discussions and seen how folks use wi-fi,
but I have not seen an answer to what prevents someone from never
paying for internet access and just using free wi-fi spots? Could one
still browse the web, just in a "read-only"mode?

It appears you actually have two questions here.

Q. What prevents someone from never using paid access and resorting to
only free access?

A. Nothing prevents you from using choosing to exclusively use free
access point over paid for ones. However if there are no free ones,
then you have to make the choice of paying for access or going without
any access.

Q. Is there a "read-only" mode?

A. There is no such thing as a "read-only" mode. You still have to
"write" your page requests as an upload to view different web pages.

I can think of one exception where you connect and a splash page is
delivered to you automatically without you making a request to read
the page. A newspaper company could post their entire daily edition
on one splash page and all you have to do is scroll down several
under screen pages to read all the articles.

As you said, there is no such as a "read-only" mode. Your exception is
incorrect. A web site cannot push a page to you when you haven't made
any request.

.

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