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Posted on 10/29/2008 11:39:01 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Access the Internet anytime
AT&T knows Wi-Fi is hot, and FREE Wi-Fi is even hotter. Which is why FREE AT&T Wi-Fi access is now available for Apple iPhone at thousands of hotspots nationwide, including Starbucks*. Users can relax and access music, email and web browsing services with their favorite blend in hand from the comfort of their nearest location. For information visit
www.att.com/attwifi.
Find a Starbucks location near you.
*Wi-Fi available at U.S. company-operated Starbucks locations equipped with a hotspot.
Thousands of AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot locations nationwide
Airports
Hotels
Universities
Convention Centers
Sports Centers
Starbucks locations
Restaurants
Bookstores
Supermarkets
Whether you browse from your laptop, phone, or device AT&T is committed to enhancing your experience by providing powerful broadband speeds. This allows for fast and easy downloads of your favorite music, streaming videos, games, and more.
Accessing AT&T's Wi-Fi hotspots is easy. You can use any Wi-Fi enabled laptop or other device to connect quickly and seamlessly.
Get started with LaptopConnect
Log in to the AT&T hotspot web page with LaptopConnect
Activate the wireless networking functionality on your laptop or Wi-Fi-enabled device and look for the SSID "ATTWIFI"
Once connected to "ATTWIFI" you will be presented with options to order AT&T's Basic or Premier service
iPhone users, get started with Wi-Fi
Activate Wi-Fi from the settings icon on your iPhone
Select "attwifi" from the list of available networks
Enter your 10-digit mobile number and check the box to agree to the Acceptable Use Policy. Tap 'continue'
You will receive a text message from AT&T with a secure link to the AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot. You will not be charged for the text message. The SMS link will only be valid for 24 hours at the location it was requested. Another request must be submitted when using another hotspot location.
Open the text message and tap on the link for 24-hour access to the AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot
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Yeah, get it while it’s “Free” before AT&T finally follows Verizon, Time Warner and Comcast and puts a cap on your downloads.
I just got an iPhone - makes all the others “smart phones” seem like stoneage implements.
What a fascinating little machine, and now with more hot spots available for free makes it even more fun.
I assume “free” means free for AT&T customers?
At least for iPhone users... who have to be AT&T to get full functionality.
Sweet. Thanks for the info.
I was just clarifying, since as a Ma-Bell DSL user I get access to their WiFi hotspots for free. Everybody else has to pay. This article made it sound like AT&T was making their WiFi free all around.
So they are extending the free use to AT&T Wireless customers. I figured that they would of already done that.
that is good to know. I had been getting the data package for my cell phone I think it 19 dollars. I can tether it to my laptop, of course you dont tell them that, you are suppose to get laptop connect which is 50 dollars i think. but laptop connect does give you the option to use the wifi spots.
Is there software that enables tethering an iphone to a laptop? I thought Apple killed this.
Probably a driver so the OS can see it as a modem? How could Apple kill that if anybody can write a driver for it?
my son made great use of free wifi while in europe and asia this past summer. He signed up for an internet phone service and then used his iphone to make phone calls home and to friends.
From nulltiver.com developers of Netshare, software that allows tethering but banned from the Apple store because it took away from AT&T's sales of laptop connect cards.
not a clue, I dont have an iphone, I have a blackjack
I tried getting hooked up with AT&T wifi when I got my iPhone. The deal was in Austin TX that you had to buy a plastic card with whatever amount of $ in it you wanted. Like a gift card. You could use the money to buy ‘whatever’ at starbucks. On the card was a number. You supposedly logged onto AT&T, typed in the number and that was it. Yeah, right.
Three pages of questions. They wanted to know all my personal info. I sent them an obscene message instead. Effing scum bags!
What’s to keep NetShare from selling outside the Apple Store or being free for that matter?
As far as I know, iphone applications are only downloadable through the Appstore.
With an un-hacked iPhone, you can only load applications from the Apple Store. This is a security feature to prevent rogue applications from causing problems. The good news is that there are TONS of applications in the Apps Store, most of them free, and some are almost staggeringly good.
It is possible to “jailbreak” your iPhone so you can load apps from elsewhere. But this risks your warranty and can cause problems at firmware-update time. Still, many hardy souls do it. It’s one way to get Netshare or a similar app installed if you really need it.
Back to the topic of AT&T providing free WiFi to iPhone users: Note that the instructions AT&T has provided talk about connecting your iPhone to the AT&T hotspot. What isn’t clear is whether you can connect the laptop you’re carrying. The connection link is sent to you as an SMS; not sure how you’d get that to your laptop or if the hotspot would object if you did. I’ll have to try it.
Of course, traveling with my iPhone with its superb little browser and email client means I have far less need to connect my laptop, but sometimes I still must.
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