Gallery with USB Keys for automatic connect to free WiFi in action (with free Internet access)
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| Notebook online under Knoppix 6.3, with the USB WiFi adapter Zydas 1211B (Minitar) at the right side
and a 5 dB omni antenna for a better WiFi connection, with a 16 GB USB Key.
The antenna is right in the briefcase. It also works with the integrated WiFi, a RTL8187 adapter. On the desktop you can see the start page of the Knoppix project, which was downloaded via the free WiFi with the name coffeefellows. Location: Middle of the first floor in the main railway station Nuremberg, Germany. Here, at http://www.coffee-fellows.de/, you can get coffee and snacks. July 2010. |
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| Notebook online under Knoppix 6.3, with the USB WiFi adapter Zydas 1211B (Minitar) at the right side
and a 5 dB omni antenna for a better WiFi connection, with a 16 GB USB Key.
The antenna is right in the briefcase. Also at http://www.coffee-fellows.de/, but in the Franken-Center Nuremberg (Germany), at the north end of the first floor. The free WiFi here has the name WLAN and you can use it even at the cellar and at the south end of the first floor, at Karstadt. July 2010. |
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Notebook online under Knoppix 6.3, with the USB WiFi adapter Zydas 1211B (Minitar) at the right side
and a 5 dB omni antenna for a better WiFi connection, with a 16 GB USB Key.
The antenna is right in the briefcase. The name of the free WiFi, which was used here, was free-hotspot.com, and seems to be configurated by that company. The free WiFi is in one of the Caffees here in the Franken-Center Nuremberg (Nuremberg, Germany), at the south end of the cellar, north from Karstadt. July 2010. |
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Notebook online under Knoppix 6.3, with the USB WiFi adapter Zydas 1211B (Minitar) at the right side
and a 5 dB omni antenna for a better WiFi connection, with a 16 GB USB Key.
The antenna is right at the top of the briefcase. Here, at the Aufsessplatz in Nuremberg (Nuremberg, Germany) i could successfully test the switching to the next free WiFi with IRIS-PC_Netzwerk, NETGEAR and TG!. Because of the sun at noon, it is hard to see the desktop with the start page of the Knoppix project. July 2010. |
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Notebook online under Knoppix 6.3, with the USB WiFi adapter Zydas 1211B (Minitar) at the right side
and a 5 dB omni antenna for a better WiFi connection, with a 16 GB USB Key.
The antenna is right in the briefcase. Location: Nuerbanum (Nuremberg, Germany), at the Nornenstrasse, in front of the company label (left outside the picture) from http://www.green-sun.de/, where you can get the free WiFi. greensun and Avocado oil with the quality NATIV and NATIV BIO for kitchen and cosmetics. You can also use this free WiFi in a cafe or restaurant nearby. July 2010. |
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Notebook online under Knoppix 6.3, with the USB WiFi adapter Zydas 1211B (Minitar) at the right side
and a 5 dB omni antenna for a better WiFi connection, with a 16 GB USB Key.
The antenna is right at the top of the briefcase. Location: Nuremberg center, Lorenzer Platz at the Lorenzkirche, at a bank in front of the Sparkasse Nuremberg and Restaurant Cafe Lorenz. The free WiFi here also has the simple name WLAN. July 2010. |
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| Notebook online under Knoppix 6.3,
with a GPRS/UMTS modem as a Fake at the right side.
The small USB key with the Knoppix is half behind this white modem
and hard to see because of the black background. You can't see a WiFi adapter and it seems the GPRS/UMTS modem, ALDI Surfstick is used, but in fact the WiFi adapter integrated in the notebook is used. I also tested booting Knoppix from the MicroSD card which was inside the modem, but the notbook could not boot via the modem although it worked via the CS562 (58-IN-1 + SIM Card Reader, Conrad Order Nr. 412614) with the same card. Location: Middle of the first floor in the main railway station Nuremberg, Germany, about 10 m north from the point where the first picture of this gallery was made. Here, at http://www.coffee-fellows.de/, you can get coffee, sncks and lots of free seats as you can see. August 2010. Update August 2011: The WiFi is still there but encrypted. It seems the customers can get the access data, like at Starbucks where they use encrypted WiFi for at leat a year. |
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As you can see, you can see nothing which shows that WiFi is used
because the notebook is closed in the briefcase, online and with a download
which was started by a script which was started by a boot
script (knoppix.sh). It's a "Sit-by-Download". The equipment is the same as in the pictures before. I made this script to completely download the around 50 MB big file http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/damnsmalllinux/current/current.iso and you can easily modify it e. g. to download or send emails. For Power saving the script makes a poweroff when the download is finished. Location: Spielplatz Ritterplatz Nuremberg. Because of the heavy rain (and no umbrella), i could not find out the name of the free WiFi which was used. Because the used download manager wget also works with disconnects, you can walk or drive during the download, e. g. on the way to school or work. That's a special "Drive-by-Download". July 2010. |
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Notebook online under Knoppix 6.3, with the USB WiFi adapter Zydas 1211B (Minitar) at the right side
and a 5 dB omni antenna for a better WiFi connection, with a 16 GB USB Key.
The antenna is right at the top of the briefcase. Ort: Nuremberg city, Pfannenschmiedgasse, on a bank in front of a cafe from http://www.coffee-fellows.de/, in the City-Point Nuremberg (Germany) (right outside the picture). The free WiFi here has the name G11 and may be from Coffeefellows, but it's not easy to find the exact location and when you want to be online, such details are irrelevant. July 2010. |
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Notebook online under
OpenSuSE 11.4, with a parabolic antenna (27 dBi, 90 x 70
cm, 3.3 kg) from wimo.de, 0.5 m Low-Loss adapter cable,
WiFi-USB adapter WL0162 and an active 20 m USB 2.0 extension
cable (DeLock 82690). With the parabolic antenna i could find a free WiFi in Aalen about 1 km away, with an up and down speed to the internet of 1 Mbit/s. Begin of August 2011. |