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Washington Post on Wi-Fi and hot spots; D.C. Starbucks to go live: Leslie Walker of the Washington Post filed this intelligent summary of the state of the industry, and scooped any report I've seen on T-Mobile's near-term lighting up of Washington, D.C., area Starbucks outlets.
NY Times on setting up a home Wi-Fi network: In an article under their Basics heading, the author gives high marks to Microsoft's gateway, partly because it provides prodding for settings other gateways don't quite explain or require. This article also updates one of the tenets of the modern Internet: you can't assign a static IP address to a computer without having it attacked within about 15 minutes. In this author's case, within minutes of setting up a Wi-Fi network without WEP turned on, his upstairs neighbor had noticed it and nicely told him to secure it.
Manhattan thousands of points of wireless access: Only a few of the thousands of points on the map discussed in this story are intentionally meant to be shared, but Manhattan is already a pastiche of almost 100 percent coverage -- south of Harlem.