Many people are switching to home WiFi or wireless broadband. Wifi is fabulous. There are free locations with connection speeds of 11 MBps. Of course you have to find the location and that can be a trial when on the road. Yet there are ten million WiFi locations and the trend of course is for WiFI to be free. There is a free download available that searches an area for you providing a list of nearby WIFi locations. For instance did you know that in the United Kingdom almost every McDonald’s has free WiFi. And what of all the wireless broadband people have in their homes. Some of this is unsecured. Now it is considered a pretty rude thing to piggyback onto someone elses WiFi with out permission.
But what if you had permission? What if everyone simply shared their WiFi so that no matter where anyone was we could all stay connected. This is the hopeful premise behind WeFi a free service dedicated to listing free WiFi spots all around the world. So far WeFi has collected 10,000,000 WiFi hot locations. Unfortunately most of the locations are securely locked leaving the concept of WeFi limited to a process That windows does anyway. the WeFi program is a bit of a pill also as it wants to remind you every 3 seconds that there are no connections available. Still the idea has merit. If everyone were to set up a WiFi broadcast then everyone would have access anywhere they were. But who will pay? Is my neighbour going to buy Broadband if I am sending it out for free? For now it appears WeFi is an idea who’s time has not arrived.