On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 09:15:24PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. This could be useful though after a week away
from my "home 3G network" and being mostly dependent either on 3G
roaming (I'm still worried what the bill is going to be like) or
non-free WiFi, it might be a lesser solution (it didn't help that a
major family crisis overseas happened during that week which required
us to call abroad almost every day).
I don't know where you were, or where you were calling to, but often you
can find free wifi by asking people if their neighbors have "the Internet"
and asking them to let you use it.
Also - I see in almost any petrol station abroad warnings about not
using mobile phones in the station - due to danger of sparks from the
phone igniting fuel fumes (I've seen this happen in some YouTube
movies, not a nice sight). I can only guess that WiFi should be
discouraged just the same.
I think it was Mythbusters that tested it and found that it was a myth,
but that does not mean you should try it on your own.
Here's a windows only link, but I expect you could find it somewhere else
in a more compatible form:
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v228529bsahSjBA
Geoff.
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