ICT SupportWi-Fi to Go: The Hot Spot in a Box

Wi-Fi to Go: The Hot Spot in a Box. Divid Pogue. NYTimes. Online February 2006. You know what would be so cool? A portable Wi-Fi hot spot. … you'd travel with a little box. Plug it into a power outlet …you and everyone within 200 feet could get onto the Internet at high speed, without wires. … Actually, such boxes exist. … Wi-Fi lets lots of computers share the same Internet signal. Cellular PC-card service is very expensive: $60 a month for unlimited use (USA). That's a lot to pay for a single computer to go online. A mobile router opens up that signal to any computer within about 200 feet; $60 a month is a lot more palatable when 10 or 20 of you are sharing it. ...