What are hotspots?
An increasingly popular way to work and play on the go, hotspots provide wireless LAN service for free or a fee, from a wide variety of public meeting areas, including coffee shops, airport lounges, and hotels. There are currently thousands of hotspots worldwide, and with new access points being deployed daily, people will soon use hotspots as easily as they use their cell phones. To use these hotspots, your notebook or handheld must be configured with Wi-Fi certified technology so you can connect with other Wi-Fi certified products. Wi-Fi enabled devices can send and receive data indoors and out; anywhere within the range of a wireless LAN base station. In the case of a fee based hotspot network the user will have to sign up and pay a service fee to use the network.