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Verizon Gives Internet Customers Free WiFi - Unless You Use a Mac or iPhone...
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Pfft. I shake my head to this. They'll get business but not nearly as much if it was open to everyone... Someone will figure out a workaround, probably.
One workaround is to dual boot into Windows.
This is becoming a dangerous idea that needs to stop because soon you will have the Microsoft mac team saying if you want Office just dual boot, or Adobe saying if you want Photoshop you can just dual boot.
One workaround is to dual boot into Windows.
I know nothing about dual booting, but wouldn't that make the computer work twice as hard, draining your computer's battery twice as fast?
The article doesn't mention this, but I wonder if they will be coming out with a Mac version of the software? Maybe the company that Verizon is purchasing was a Windows based company only.
Also, "F" dual booting. I agree with others.... Bring us a Mac counterpart, I don't want to have to use Windows to do things like check email, use photoshop etc.......
Also, "F" dual booting. I agree with others.... Bring us a Mac counterpart, I don't want to have to use Windows to do things like check email, use photoshop etc.......
Ugh... annoying since I have FiOS. Let's hope they bring out a Mac version of the app or employ a better system so that all devices can use the free Wifi.
Well here in the UK every company that offers this has a login home page that you can enter something like your account id.
The day the Microsoft mac team says this will be the day I reply "so you are including a free copy of Windows for me to dual boot into, then?"
I think they meant with Boot Camp, which will act like any other laptop with Windows installed. If you run it via VMWare Fusion or Parallels, you'll only be able to connect using the Windows virtual machine and not OS X anyway so in the end Boot Camp seems the only feasible way.
to use a hotspot, you have to install windows only software..
is this software used simply to connect to the service? or will it act as a browser?
because if its used simply to connect to the service, ill be able to use parallels to run that program and then use safari/firefox
is this software used simply to connect to the service? or will it act as a browser?
because if its used simply to connect to the service, ill be able to use parallels to run that program and then use safari/firefox
Installing software to be able to access a wifi AP is ridiculous. Even for Windows users.
I don't have FiOS (not available here), but in actuality it does sound kind of useful, because AT&T and T-Mo hotspots (I have access to one via my phone plan and the other via my DSL plan) aren't available in a lot of the kinds of places where Bongo is, and those kind of places actually are places where Wifi is useful (e.g. airports).
I don't have FiOS (not available here), but in actuality it does sound kind of useful, because AT&T and T-Mo hotspots (I have access to one via my phone plan and the other via my DSL plan) aren't available in a lot of the kinds of places where Bongo is, and those kind of places actually are places where Wifi is useful (e.g. airports).
If you set up a network connection in Parallels then you will not be able to use this connection from OSX - the host cannot access networks created on the guest but it does work the other way round.
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Hopefully we can run the utility in wine… but of course I don't understand why with my 50/20 service I don't get this WiFi option.
Well they do need some way for you to authenticate in order to bypass the usual landing page used by the AP provider.
Installing software to be able to access a wifi AP is ridiculous. Even for Windows users.
Well they do need some way for you to authenticate in order to bypass the usual landing page used by the AP provider.
I'm not sure I see why... in most other cases, they just have a sort of roaming partner's drop down, and you pick the provider you have. For instance, this is typically what happens when you visit an AT&T hotspot at Starbucks and you want to log in using T-Mobile. You pick T-Mo and then it tells you, okay, access with a valid T-Mo hotspot account is free (or in some cases, it might say, "xxx users can log in for $4.99/day" or somesuch). Then you provide your credentials. Works fine without software.
Right, but I think Verizon doesn't want folks to know the credentials they're using and as an added bonus they can probably track usage.