Re: FWD: Hotels wired for Internet.... If you run the right OS

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Due to an apparent editing error, it wasn't clear that the message below
was a forward of a post by Brett Glass on am-info@essential.org, and
written by him, not me.

    jamie


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> 
> Some high end business hotels will soon provide high-speed Internet
> access to any traveler with an Ethernet card in his or her laptop. But
> there's a catch. Even though the Internet's TCP/IP is a non-proprietary
> protocol, and should by rights be usable from any operating system, the
> vendor -- ATCOM -- requires users to load special software that runs
> only on Windows or NT. In short, businesspeople who have Apple
> PowerBooks (whose ease of use makes them especially popular with
> executives) can't use the high-speed Internet links at these hotels.
> Likewise, users with  a Newton, a 3Com Palm Pilot, or an IBM compatible
> running Linux or FreeBSD, need not apply. See
> 
> http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?98034.eihotels.htm
> 
> and ATCOM's site at
> 
> http://199.106.231.111/
> 
> For the latest news on this and other issues, see YMMV's Daily Links at
> http://www.ymmv.com/daily.html
> 
> --Brett Glass