[gui-talk] using Wy Fi in a coffee house like a Starbucks

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You don't need sighted help for establishing a WiFi connection -- just go to 
the start menu and click on "connect to" and from the submenu select 
wireless.  You should hear jaws babbling about selecting a wireless network 
in range.  Arrow down the list and see if you recognize the one that is the 
cafe's network.
Then tab to the connect button and hit enter.

Other things to remember, first, is your wireless card turned on? There is 
usually a physical switch on the laptop that turns the wireless card on and 
off.  If you don't use a wireless router at home you may not have turned the 
card on.
Also, if the cafe's wireless network requires a security key or password, 
you'll have to get that from someone, but I seriously doubt a restaurant 
would bother with a secured network.
I hope this helps.
Have fun...
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:36 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] using Wy Fi in a coffee house like a Starbucks


Where I live, such cafes are filled with people writing screenplays and
doing homework and all sorts of stuff on their tables at the coffee houses.
I was forced out of my house earlier today because of pest control, long
story, so I went to a nearby cafe where, in fact, the table next to the one
I could take was occupied by a young guy working on a laptop.

He plugged in my laptop for me, and told me the cafe had Wy Fi. But I tried
to go online but got an error message of some sort that I couldn't read
because I'm not a good-enough Jaws jockey.

I asked a sighted IT friend what could have happened, and he said I'd
probably have to have asked someone at the cafe for help getting hooked up
with Wy Fi. He says it's real visual, a bunch of pop-ups and menus that seem
mostly graphical to him.

any advice?
 BTW I have an Acer laptop running under WinXP. I use OE and IE8.

Thanks,
Joel
men7u


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