What's a cheep (or even better, FREE) WIFI service?

[ExcelLover]

T-Mobile seems to be the dominant provider in the Philadelphia area, which is probably why they're so damned expensive, sheesh ! There's like a dozen Starbucks coffee stores near my job area-including one RIGHT across the street-and they only deal with T-Mobile. Which would be fine if T-Mobile wasn't trying to rip people off ! $39.99 a month?! a $29.99 a month yearly plan?! a daily 6-dollars-for-60-MINUTES-then-10-cents-per-extra-minute plan?!

Since I'm already a Verizon Online customer, I would have gotten WiFi FREE of charge-if I lived in NY . Since I live in Philly where there are no Verizon hotspots yet...I'm already paying like $37 a month for Verizon DSL, and I already have internet (kinda) for my TE with Advantgo. So the most I'm willing to pay is $19.99 a month MAXIMUM. Anybody know a cheeper provider, because I don't want to get ripped off by T-Mobile, when I get my Enfora Portfolio.

[SGosnell]

All Panera Bread stores offer free wifi, and this site shows a number of free wifi hotspots in Philadelphia. Try putting free wifi hotspots into Google, and you can spend lots of time looking at locations.

[ExcelLover]

Thanks, I didn't know Mean Bean did Wifi, I walk by there all the time! There's some other great spots too. Now it's an issue of how far away can I be from the hotspot before the signal fades...because all of them are at least 3 blocks away from where I want to connect. T-Mobile says 300 feet, which doesn't sound like much.

[SGosnell]

300 feet may be optimistic, depending on what may be between you and the AP.

[ExcelLover]

Aw...this sounds like I'm gonna have to litteraly be sitting inside the store for this thing to work...BTW get ready for a hidden "surprise" when you order the Enfora Portfolio. It's $149 PLUS the UPS charges of either $7, $22, or $50, depending on how fast you want UPS to move. So at least $156 is coming out of your credit card. Don't want you to feel like you were blindsided by a mack truck when you go to order it .

[ExcelLover]

That makes the T-Mobile deals even MORE of a ripoff !