Last weekend we loaded up the car and took off to
find a few caches. We had all the necessary tools; GPSr, PDA with cachemate,
water, sandwiches, oh, and the laptop with verizon broadband wireless (just
incase the wife wanted to chat with the kids in Tampa or family in Denver). The
laptop was really along to allow us to search Geocaching.com. We got tired of
printing out the sheets and I hadn't learned to use cachemate very well at this
point.
What I found was that many places where we stopped
to look for a cache there was an unsecure wireless network within range of the
802.11 wireless connection built into the laptop. We didn't really need the
verizon connection to surf the web. We connected through these unsecured access
points and did what we needed, and then moved on. I figured I would pass this
little tidbit on for any of you who needed to improve your caching
capabilities.
Mark
ToFer Magoo