wifi access in SF bay area

I make frequent trips to US SF Bay area. I stay for about one week each time. Can someone recommend a good wifi hotspot wirless service that one can enroll on a "pay as you go" so I'm not stuck to any long term contract since I don't live in US? I use win xp and have wireless LAN on my notebook pc.

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Sachi Noma
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What part of the SF Bay area? San Franciso (city) is one of the best connected cities. You should have no problems finding a free open access hot-spot in SF.

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However, if you want to pay, I suggest T-Mobile, which is found at Starbucks coffee, Borders books stores, and others.
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as you go is $0.10/min. Ouch.

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Jeff Liebermann

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Reply to
Teddybare

I think there's supposed to be free wireless along parts of University Ave. in downtown Palo Alto (supposedly, the $5/month service in that area through AnchorFree is now free).

-Yves

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Yves Konigshofer

Where do you stay? Lots of hotels, and even cheap motels, offer free wireless access. In the city of San Francisco, there are a lot of public free hotspots.

T-Mobile is $9.99 for 24 hours, and is in a lot of commercial locations. Starbucks coffee (lots of them), FedEx Kinkos, and Borders Books.

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dold

Thank you everyone for your kind comments.

Regards, Sachi visiting the SF Bay area from Japan

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Sachi Noma

I am finding that more hotels have wired access and more are adding Wireless. They are unfortunately not Super 8 and Red Roof Inn, but the more expensive places. The first one I visited with wired and wireless, I found that they had not completed wiring the hotel and the wireless was only available in the lobby. It was slow on top of it.

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hxbarney

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hxbarney

Red Roof Inn is starting to offer T-Mobile. It might be free, it might be $9.95 per day, but that might still come out cheaper than a different hotel with "free" WiFi padded in the price.

Best Western has a lot of free WiFi, as does Comfort Inn. At the other end, Embassy Suites charges $9.99 per day. A lot of Marriott, including the Courtyard variety, have free WiFi.

You can start with

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"clients" which all seem to be free.

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has some free internet in SF, but I don't know how the room rates compare.

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Cheaper than Best Western.

Or if you have a discount hotel search site in mind, you can sometimes enhance that site's own search engine with a little Google work.

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lets me search for "san francisco", but not "wireless", so I go to Google.com and do a search for site:
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internet wireless "san francisco" which gives me a better return on that same site.

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dold

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