2011-01-25-0526Z


From the downtown train depot in San Diego, the strongest AP signal comes from an SSID of TRAINDEPOT. And it actually dishes out IP addresses, via DHCP, on the 192.168.1.0/8 network; but it doesn't actually route you anywhere. Nor does it, as many apparently "open" hotspots do, take over DNS and redirect you to a login screen. It simply hangs. I asked one of the ticket clerks who is in charge of the Internet. She didn't know what I was talking about, so I showed her. "We don't provide Internet. I don't know why that's there". Hard to argue with that.

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