Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

David Brodbeck wrote:
James Knott wrote:
While my cell phone includes such a "modem", it uses GPRS, which is an
extra cost service.


That's definitely a concern. Although the way hotels keep jacking up
their phone charges it might be cheaper to pay for GPRS. ;)

It always amazes me that the more you pay for a hotel room, the more
little charges they tack on. If you stay in a $40/night hotel you get
local calls for free. If you stay in a $100/night hotel they charge you
a buck fifty just to connect you.
I know exactly what you mean. Last fall, I stayed at a motel in the middle of nowhere (Wawa Ontario), which included free WiFi. But in February I was at a very nice hotel in a Quebec ski resort town, where the rooms were over $200/night and WiFi was another $14/day. However, I found that I could bypass their paid access, by using OpenVPN to connect to my home network and reach the internet from there! They apparently didn't block UDP port 1194. Yesterday, my manager said he was being charged $16/day for access at the Marriott Hotel in Toronto.


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