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# Wireless access on the go
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/wireless-access-on-the-go/
- Published: 2004-01-02T11:09:23.000Z
- Updated: 2004-01-02T11:09:23.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

Jon Udell describes his experiences looking for wireless access in his relatives’ hometown, and being questioned by the police for sitting in a running car outside a local school.

> Is it conceivable that a small town might designate a well-known AP for public access, including drive-through use? The public library would be the obvious candidate. (Ideally its public-access AP would be isolated from the library’s internal network.) During regular hours, visitors could bring laptops inside, but after hours they could park outside in a well-lit and easily-monitored area. Then there’d be no incentive to cruise schools and residential neighborhoods scanning for APs. \[[Jon’s Radio](https://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/12/29.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net#a875)\]