Making Your Wireless Connection

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Connecting on the road can be a challenge unless you have a wireless card for your laptop or you can survive with your smart phone (iPhone owners have to get by with just their phones because otherwise they couldn’t be so smug and sanctimonious about their Apple-swellness). You pay for more than you get or you have to buy time in chunks that don’t match your needs. Starbucks used to offer a T-Mobile 24-hour pass for $9.99 that was great for grabbing a connection between meetings throughout the day.  Now you can only buy two-hour chunks for $3.99 each. Not an improvement.

About.com has offered up a great airport WiFi guide. Panera offers free WiFi if you can find one. Still, if you travel more than a couple of times a month you may find it worth it to invest in the $80 or so a month for a wireless card from Verizon or one of the other major providers.

What are your secrets for connecting on the road?