On Sat, August 29, 2015 2:52 pm, Brian wrote: > But your question was about taking your laptop onto a foreign network. > Which goalposts do you want to aim for? What is your point if we take > this into account?
When I go into the other guy's office, he takes his windows laptop computer and is going to various web sites to show me this and that (maps, real-estate listings, business web sites, and so forth). And I become frustrated, because we are on opposite sides of the desk, and he controls the keyboard. It is awkward for me to say, "let me have the computer for a minute," so that I can show him things which I think are pertinent, important, or interesting. However, if I pack along my own laptop and ethernet cable, it is not awkward to ask permission to plug into his router (or to access his LAN via Wi-FI). Then I can find this or that web site on my machine and show him, as well as bookmarking whatever web sites he shows me. I simply am trying to facilitate communication. In the foreign network I have no need to print, no need to send or receive mail (except perhaps via a webmail interface), no need for ftp. My only need is to browse. RLH
