Talk:Wi-Fi hotspot

message: I don't think this section should be in there.  Pretty much any college or university these days has wireless capabilities (correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know the facts), so if the list were complete its members would number in the thousands.  In that case, this is definitely not the place to put it.  Perhaps it would be appropriate to create a separate list article for this?
:I agree, so I removed the list.  Besides, since most schools/universities have access restrictions to their networks (allowing free access for students/employee, and no access for others) I don't think they count as hotspots.  tobixen 16:45, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Also, someone added the cleanup tag, but can they expand on what specifically is wrong?  Aaron Lawrence 18:45, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of schools using wireless technologies 

message: Brief History of Hotspots: "over 90% of the over 300,000 hotspots offer free service to entice customers to their venue"
I'm assuming this refers to hotspots in the US. In NZ most hotspots are not free. Charges are based on either time or bandwidth and managed by 3rd parties.
http://www.cafenet.co.nz/about/services/prepay.html
The other companies offering paid wifi that I noticed in Wellington were GlobalGossip, Swoosh, and Telecom.
:Above is stale.  Text doesn't exist.  Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 23:16, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free Access 

message: this article need serious cleaning up!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.109.40.194 (talk) 10:25, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up 

message: I think many people come here who would like to setup their own hotspot. We should have some guidelines here at least, so they know where to start...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fudge55 (talk • contribs) 15:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to setup a hotspot 

message: "Hotspots may be found in coffee shops and various other public establishments throughout much of North America and Europe" is a silly statement. It suggests that hotspots (in public places) are unheard of in the rest of the world. Nothing is further from the truth. I have used hotspots at Starbucks on four continents and one subcontinent.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.196.141.117 (talk) 21:24, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it's fair to say they're found throughout much of Australia, but I'd assume they're found in metro areas and the like, as well as in Asia. So I'm asking other editors—expand the geographic mention or just omit it entirely? —C.Fred (talk) 21:30, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silly North American and European navel-staring 

message: Depending on the country where the HotSpot public access service is offered, be they the smallest café or the largest network, it can have various legal obligations.[7]
Not sure if it is worth including in this article, opinions? --142.162.73.242 (talk) 01:12, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Another weird sentence occurs in paragraph 2 of the 'Billing' section: "By the way the user is asked for if he still wishes the session also by a higher traffic class." I think this should either be changed or removed. It sounds like gibberish to me. (For future reference, what tag should I use for this issue? I was unable to find the proper tag. Much appreciated.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mousenight (talk • contribs) 00:45, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird sentence 

message: Since the link open wifi currently redirects to Hotspot (Wi-Fi),
I think this article should say a few words about it,
in accordance with WP:R#PLA.
Did maybe this article once say something about it,
but it got accidentally deleted?
Is maybe some other article such as wireless security more appropriate for saying a few words about open wifi,
and so that redirect should be changed to point to that other article?
--DavidCary (talk) 17:21, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  open wifi 

message: Hi! Coldspot (Wi-Fi) redirects here but "coldspot" does not appear anywhere in this article. Could you ass some sentences to explain what is a "coldspot"? Pamputt (talk) 12:01, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  coldspot 

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replies: text: T-Mobile link is a faithfully archived 404. Pinkbeast (talk) 05:31, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: This page was flagged as in need of updating as a result of having a lack of citations; this still needs working on but I have added a citation to the "types" section --Sydney2019editor (talk) 23:25, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Added Citation