WiFi is available for free in many locations. These are generally known as hotspots. It is important that care is taken when connecting to an open network for personal security reasons.
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Only if the public place your located have public accessed wifi
There are many places to connect wirelessly (802.11 or Airport) to the internet. McDonald's and Border's Books are two national chains that offer free wifi access. Some, like Border's, requires you to agree to a statement before using their connection. This is just a legality to protect them, they are not charging you for the service.
The question is a bit unclear, you can only connect to the internet wirelessly, and you need a wi-fi network in range.If you don't have a wireless router, you can:get a USB Nintendo Wi-Fi Connector (or similar device)use someone else's wireless network (in most cases this isn't allowed, and is probably password protected)Find a Wi-Fi Hotspot (Try public places like McDonalds)
The cheapest way to get an internet connection would be to use a wireless adapter and connect to a neighbor's router. A person can also access wireless routers at public places that offer it, such as McDonalds or Starbucks.
Yes and no. It all depends on where you are. Many hotels, restaurants, libraries and other public places provide free wifi internet service for patrons. In those places you may get free internet. Although it should be noted that many of these places require you to make a purchase before you are allowed on the network. As far as your home goes, yes you will need to pay for internet service just as you would with a desktop computer. You may want to use a wireless router to make that internet connection available wirelessly throughout your house. Indeed you may find that a neighbor has a wireless router which you can connect to from your house. Connecting to it may or may not be legal in your area, and certainly is not ethical.
The ability to connect to the internet can come with a device. Internet service is not free, except at places that allow free internet connections as a service to guests, customers, or patrons of the home, business, or establishment.
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Wireless communications are available in public places, this is called WiFi. Sometimes there is a fee for using the wireless internet. Often places like coffee shops have WiFi.
You need a wireless acsess point when you have a device that you want to connect to the Internet and you do not want to use a twisted pair network cable to do that.
IP3 net access is an obsolete deceive which was used as an internet gateway management in public places such as hotels or restaurants. By setting up Netaccess any user who wants to connect to the internet needs to approve hotel's rules and also you can set it up in a way that each user first pay for internet price (Credit Card or other methods) hourly or daily.
There are many places you can go to locate public opinion polls. There are a lot of databases on the internet that will help you find what you are looking for such as The University of Chicago Library.