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How to Hunt for Free Wi-Fi

Posted on 07 January 2010 by Amna

If you are out and you need an internet connection so here are some known and absolute ways to get a free Wi-Fi.

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Simple: Common places where a Wi Fi exists

Wi Fi is found at many places like universities, hotels, restaurants and offices. Some Wi Fi’s are there to use free of cost and for some of them we have to pay. In some wi-fi’s you have to provide a user name and password to acces it. So before selecting any place to use wi fi just confirm once is that free or not so u may not get dis appointed with that place.

In colonies like residential areas a little effort can tell you that is there a wireless hotspot or not and you can easily set it up with little knowledge of how to use it. Instead of turning on your laptop or other wi fi detection devices just switch and search on wi fi connectivity in your smart phone or a wireless detecting key chain. It is as smple that you can get notification of wi fi hot spot even through your pair of shoes if you are that smart how to use them.

Medium: Employ Wi-Fi Scanner Apps and Look-up Tools

Often the built in scanner on your smartphone or laptop can be so slow or it will not provide you each fact you want to know about all the present networks. Here are some free applications and tools for searching and implementing freeWi-Fi networks.

In windows:

When windows can not search for a Wi-Fi and you are unable to use it because windows built in wi-fi is not searching it for you just install NetStumbler in to your windows and it will help you searching all available wi-fi newtworks. It wil list you all the networks with all its properties like channel, signal strength and security type etc.

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As explained free window application Wi-Fi offers a grouped database of free hotspots for finding it. It provides good ways of finding hotspots but be very concious of extra crapwares in the downloading process just reject it.

Mac:

In mac, iStumbler is the free searching application if you want. It offers an effective content of nearest hotspots, including all the name, security measures, channel, signal and noise variations and MAC addresses. iStumbler has not been amended for a long time and it did not worked well as it is used to on leopard on my snow leopard downloading.

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Smartphones: iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Android:

A smartphone can help finding a Wi- Fi spot near you by switching on its built in antenna but a little more applications will help finding a near or a bit far location too.

In iPhone we got the best outcomes from JiWire’s Free Wi-Fi finder, which scans ares by zip code or your nearest location. This application can be used in mobile as well. Other Iphone Wi-Fi scanner applications consists of WifiTrack and WiFiFoFum.

In Windows Mobile, WiFiFoFum is available and WeFi application is also there available for Andriod.

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Webapps:

Smartphones have the applications that will allow you to have an internet access and search a wifi for you, these applications will help finding a hotspot of Wi-Fi for you that includes:

WiFinder
Hotspot Haven
JiWire
Wi-Fi Hotspot List
Hotspotr

Hopelessness level: High

Agony times cals for rash measures. If you are searching for a Wi-Fi and it is resulting zero or just turning up just security walls you just got little options.

First, you can switch your smartphone into a router by fastening to its connection. Well this will not help you to get a fsat connection but still it can make you online. Here is one of the method for enabling fastening on your iphone, PdaNet is a popular tethering app that works on Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Palm OS, and iPhone—though you’ll need to jailbreak your iPhone to get it working.

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