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

[Tom Buskey]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
 http://www.wigle.net/ is a map + wardriving mashup.
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