Finding *unfiltered* free WiFi? (was: WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN)

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:
>
> On 07/07/2009 12:54 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> >
> > I run my company's OpenVPN endpoint on both UDP and TCP.  I send
> > out configurations using UDP because it works in almost all
> > circumstances, but there was once, with an employee travelling
> > somewhere in Europe, where the hotel firewall/NAT didn't do
> > anything for UDP connections.
[...]
> I hit a couple of these recently, in two different hotels on the same
> trip!  Both only allowed DNS and HTTP/S (most of their guests only use
> wifi for facebook and porn?).
[...]
> I've since set up this kind of config for a couple clients with mobile
> salesforces that have had similar symptoms.
> 
> At this point it seems "free wireless internet" is an insufficient
> advertisement for a business traveler, and there's probably nobody you
> can talk to ahead of time who can tell you what they allow.

Start a wiki project? :)

We've got the `open database of general knowledge' (Wikipedia), the
open database of maps (OpenStreetMap), the open database of
speed-limit signs (Wikispeedia), the open database of GSM cell-sites
(OpenBmap)..., why not one for WiFi-hotspots?

Actually, it looks like OpenBmap <http://www.openbmap.org/> has
already expanded their scope to include WiFi hotspots; it seems like
access-restrictions might be just the sort of data that they'd want to
include in their database--I don't know whether they've considered
that prospect, yet.

> B-o-o-o-o-o-gus!

Are you quoting Bill & Ted, or Frankenstein? :)

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