Why Wi-Fi and How Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi Hotspots: Setting Up Public Wireless Internet Access

By Tom Carpenter and R. Pokkyarath

This book is perfectly focused on the intention of setting Public Wi-Fi Hotspots. By this I mean that the book doesn't load you down with all the technical details of how wireless networks work, but instead dives right into the business/organizational benefits of running such a network as a hotspot. There is a very brief chapter at the end that gives an overview of RF or wireless signals (literally 14 pages) and this is perfect. Great job staying on focus.

The book presents the implementation of Wi-Fi Hotspots from start-to-finish covering these topics:

-Why Implement a Hotspot

-Simple Quick-Install Hotspots

-Adcvanced Hotspot technologies

-Marketing your hotspot

-Avoiding freeloaders who consume your bandwidth

-Common problems and resolutions

-Hotspot safety and security

...among others. If you are considering implementing a hotspot for pay or for marketing purposes, this book is a great place to start. -Tom Carpenter, Author: Wireless# Certification Official Study Guide, CWNA Certification Official Study Guide 4th Edition, CWSP Certification Official Study Guide 2nd Edition

A few years back, we had a miniscule operation where we provided hosted billing software to small wireless ISP's and hotspot operators. 

That company gets mentioned in 2 or 3 places here, and that's why I bought this book. 

Thesedays I don't know who makes money off hotspots; the initial hoopla died out long ago and the market was littered with dead operations. 

The book does touch upon all the points you needed to know to set up a _small_ scale wifi service in hotels, cafes and so on; it's not suited for small ISPs and do not cover deployment and operational issues issues associated with a more demanding environment. 

There are two main sections (apart from the basic intro): one deals with setting up a hotspot, and the other deals with the post-deployment aspects; the latter part includes chapters such as, "Fending off freeloaders"! With a little patience you can get all this info straight from the net, but if you prefer the info in a packaged format, this book will be of use. The books comes with a CD; I never opened it, though.

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What I Like and Do Not Like About the Kindle 2.0

Kindle Keyboard, Wi-Fi, 6" E Ink Display

By Maya Kadouf
First, let's explain what Kindle 2.0 is all about. This is an e-book reader, meaning it's a device to read electronic books from. The screen is actually quite nice and very easy to read from. I tried reading side-by-side with the Kindle and a standard book and only notice little to no difference. So reading is very easy on the eye, with its non-reflective screen.

On the battery life, at full charge and with Whispernet's 3G wireless on, I manage to get 10 days of battery life on the Kindle 2.0, which was pretty amazing. Hats off to the engineers who put this together because it's fantastic.

Some of the issues that people had with the first Amazon Kindle was that the next page button was too large. So it's easy for someone to accidentally hit the next page button. This problem has been fixed in the Kindle 2.0. You can't accidentally click the next page button anymore because it's positioned in such a way now that you need to intentionally click inside the button to turn the page. Kindle 2.0 also now comes with a new 5-way navigational pad. You can scroll up, down, left, right, and push it in for the fifth button.

The screen is ample for comfortable reading, although the one complain I would have is the Kindle 2.0 not having touch screen capabilities. The full QWERTY keyboard takes up a lot of space. Although it's very helpful when you're searching for text, you spend most of your time reading and not searching. So, to be able to fully utilize the real estate on the Kindle device here would have been nice with the touch screen capabilities.

Read more about how the Kindle 2.0 is different from the original Kindle here at  http://buykindlestores.blogspot.com or click to >>>>>Kindle accessories
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