As most of you who follow me know, I am always out and about looking for WiFi hotspots. Lately I had lost access to the Cablevision Network of WiFi Hotspots as I tried to take advantage of a special that Verizon was offering. It was a $99 a month triple play package that included their high speed internet of 25mps. This was a pretty big speed difference over Cablevision’s standard 15mps offering. The only drawback was I no longer had...

Image by DVdaniels via Flickr Saturday I was having a working lunch at Panera Bread before heading over to Roosevelt Field Mall and a little iPad action. Time Warner, Optimum Online and Comcast all have wireless hotspots at the Panera Bread in Carle Place but I sat down, signed onto the Panera Network  and got down to work. After a really brief 30 mins I was booted off the Panera network. Time’s up. “You gotta go”...

Image by DVdaniels via Flickr I’ve spent months tracking WiFi hotspots on Long Island and usually what I turn up is AT&T and Optimum WiFi and these two have a huge head start. In the past I have written that I thought Cablevision would have a monopoly on Long Island if no other cable company attempted to blanket Long Island with WiFi. Now as I do my daily travels I am finding Time Warner and Comcast are both entering Long...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I get this question quite a bit and the answer is “NO”! If you are an Optimum Online customer you get unlimited free WiFi with your internet package. The same does not hold true for people who do not subscribe to Cablevision. Non subscribers trying to get onto the Optimum WiFi network will be considered a guest. Guests will be able to access the Optimum WiFi network three times per 30-day...

Yesterday I found a hotspot that came in handy and will certainly make my visits to the mechanic a little more pleasant. I had met up with a client in the Rockville center area. After I was through I went out to Panera Bread in Rockville center for lunch so I could hop on their free WiFi. Paid $1 for parking so I wouldn’t get a parking ticket.  Over Lunch I worked through my Google Reader as I had fallen behind my favorite blogs....

With the spectacular weather we had yesterday I actually took out the video camera for the first time for 2010. Of course I spent most of my day in traffic so that’s what I filmed. Long Island Traffic! What Entertainment! Don’t worry, I took the 10 minutes of video and speeded it up into about 60 seconds. I gave up sitting in traffic  and decided when I was in the East Meadow area, I would stop at Eisenhower Park. I actually...