Intel Corp (INTC)

[SemiconEng]

OT: I am in the Bahamas at a resort and the wireless connection from the room is good to 11Mbps (pretty good signal), yet I can't connect to the hub. I called the IT operater for the hotel and she tells me that I need to go to the lobby to connect, where the hotspot is.
So, I go there, and bingo, connection. How do they do that? How do they know I am in the lobby and not the room? Same thing happened on my wife's computer...
Smooth
Really cool, tho'


Dunno, it's strange, the same sort of thing happened to me at the local coffee house. When I'm actually inside sipping my latte, I can connect my Centrino wirelessly to my companies encrypted servers, no problem, but when I tried it from my parked car in front of the cafe, I couldn't link to my companies secure server, even though the rest of the net was available..... I noticed the signal strength was better inside, so maybe some sort of hotspot range vs. signal strength thing???

I know..... I can walk around the hotspot parimeter area (~300ft), holding my laptop, and keep saying..... Can you link me now? Can you Link me now??? Like that verizon guy with the cell phone?????

btw, I agree..... being "unwired" is Very CooooooooL :-]