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Apr 09, 2008 by i love you. | Posted in Computer Networking

I have broadband wireless at my home.
If I had a BlackBerry with WiFi does that mean I could continue my broadband at home for free?

Depends how you ask.

If you ask if you can use your Blackberry on your home Internet, instead of the BlackBerry network, the answer is yes.

If you ask if you can cancel paying for your home Internet and replace it with your BlackBerry Internet, the answer is essentially no

Is your home wireless much faster than your Blackberry can offer. Also, if you are planning to use your Blackberry for Internet access you could use it on the computer it was connected, it could be accessed by all computers by wire or wireless.

If you are a heavy Internet user, keep your current configuration. If you are thrifty and willing to performance in bulk, go for it!

The WiFi feature on your Blackberry means it can connect to WiFi networks, this does not mean it can create a WiFi network.

How long is nintendo wifi supposed to take to fully load?

Mar 01, 2009 by Lizzy | Posted in Video & Online Games

How long is nintendo wifi supposed to take to fully load? My little brother is trying to log on to the Pokemon Battle Tower wifi and it has taken a long time and it still has not fully connected. We have already set up the Wifi System (typing in all of our information to the DS) and the system says it is in range of our wireless internet.

If it helps, my brother has Pokemon Diamond and hes playing on a Nintendo DS.

My DS Takes very little time... some times as fast as 1 minute and sometimes it takes 5... depends on how close you are to the source... i hope this helped!

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by Erick Schonfeld

Google is going to make a lot of frequent flyers, and Virgin America, happy this holiday season. As a gift to people who fly on Virgin America’s WiFi-equipped planes, Google will be footing the bill for everybody on board between November 10, 2009, and January 15, 2010.

For Google, this is a smart marketing move because it generates tons of good will among everyone who flies Virgin America. But Google is really giving a gift to Virgin America in the form of yet one more incentive to fly its planes over competitors’. Will American Airlines and others with WiFi on board have to respond with their own freebie giveaways? I hope so.

Not that I mind paying the $13 per flight to use WiFi on Virgin America flights. In fact, I go out of my way to try to fly on Virgin America, just so that I don’t waste 6 hours going from coast to coast. But giving it away free makes it even more appealing. In fact, as I’ve suggested in the past, I wonder if Virgin America would be better off giving the WiFi away for “free” to everyone on board regularly, but charging more per flight. I’d certainly be willing to pay $25 to $50 more per flight if I knew there was WiFi. But that’s just me.

The only thing that worries me is whether the in-flight WiFi system can handle everyone on board surfing the Web at the same time. At least with the $13 fee, there is a natural cap to how many people use it at once.

Although I am not sure if this is part of the plan, but one other way for this to benefit Google would be if Virgin agreed to make a google.com property the default ‘first destination’ for users of the service.

Just like many public/free WiFi hotspots, no matter what URL you enter, your initial network request is redirected to a pre-determined starter page.

But I do agree with Erick – this is mostly a good-will generator for Google.com, and most of the benefits will accrue to Virgin.

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