>      Since we have an international audience here, I thought this
> might be a good place to ask...
>      My aunt leads tours from the US to New Zealand and
> Australia. She'd like to set up a notebook computer so she can
> just walk into a wireless hot spot anywhere in the world and have
> access to the net (and her email, etc.). What's generally
> available for travelers like her? Are there free services that
> are widespread? Paid services that she could activate on a daily
> or monthly basis? Would she just set the wireless card to DHCP
> and DHCP would take care of the rest of it?

        I don't know of a universal database for this sort of thing but I can
answer the second part. DHCP will be almost enough for MOST hotspots, you
would have to set the SSID. Some of the pay services may use encryption
which means you'd also have to enable encryption and enter the encryption
key. TTYL

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