Wi-Fi at OSH

I've done a little prep and found some potential wireless hotspots
within about a mile or so of the North 40. Here's my list, in case it's
helpful to anyone else:

Locations on Koeller: from the N40, go W to US41, then N to Koeller.

Fairfield Inn Oshkosh
1800 S Koeller St 920-233-8504

Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar
1700 S Koeller St 920-231-8770

The Cafe at Basic
1622 S. Koeller Street 920-231-1177

The UPS Store #01250
1528a S Koeller Rd 920-231-1623

Starbucks Oshkosh Hwy 41 & 9TH
1150A Koeller Street 920-231-7208

Hawthorn Oshkosh Hotel Suites
3105 S. Washburn Street 920-303-1133
From N40, go W to US41, then S to hotel.

"Hilton Garden Inns has complimentary access available in the hotel
public areas and guestrooms of many locations. Check with each
location for availability."

Any public Wi-Fi hotspots to be available anywhere on the field
itself?

If not, at least I have a Verizon aircard in my laptop, although I'm
wondering about the wisdom of lugging my laptop around in my backpack
all day.

In article m,
CheckerBird wrote:

Any public Wi-Fi hotspots to be available anywhere on the field
itself?

If not, at least I have a Verizon aircard in my laptop, although I'm
wondering about the wisdom of lugging my laptop around in my backpack
all day.

I logged onto the Hilton site from the North 40 to check weather radar
before departing last year.

I logged onto the Hilton site from the North 40 to check weather radar
before departing last year.

BTW -- this is another priceless thing about Nexrad radar in the
plane. Mary and I will turn on the 496, drink a cup of coffee, and
before we're through we will have more weather information in the
plane than ANY flight service briefer could provide.

I may not be thrilled with Garmin's performance -- but I absolutely
won't fly without weather in the plane again...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Jul 18, 1:35 pm, Dave Butler wrote:
I've done a little prep and found some potential wireless hotspots
within about a mile or so of the North 40. Here's my list, in case it's
helpful to anyone else:

Here's a map of Wi-fi hot spots at AirVentu

http://airventure.org/2007/planning/...i_hotspots.jpg
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

On Jul 18, 1:35 pm, Dave Butler wrote:
I've done a little prep and found some potential wireless hotspots
within about a mile or so of the North 40. Here's my list, in case it's
helpful to anyone else:

Here's a map of Wi-fi hot spots at AirVentu

http://airventure.org/2007/planning/...i_hotspots.jpg

So, I'm curious how this new service worked out. Was it free? How was the access from the North 40? I
wasn't there this year, but can see that this would be very handy for email and weather briefings. Then I
suppose the next challenge will be keeping the laptop batteries charged.

Mike

Mike Adams wrote:

So, I'm curious how this new service worked out. Was it free? How was
the access from the North 40? I wasn't there this year, but can see
that this would be very handy for email and weather briefings. Then I
suppose the next challenge will be keeping the laptop batteries
charged.

When you first attempted to pull a webpage, a page popped up that had
you agree to the EAA rules of useage, after that you were never asked
again, so it was probably tracking your MAC address...

Sometimes it worked well, other times it didn't (like trying to pull
some Nexrad when the storms came up on Wednesday). Also I couldn't get
service from the EAA from Jay's camping spot (right at the red light), I
did pull data from the hotel nearby though. Just not enough signal
coming all the way from the Red Barn...

I bought an extra 2100ma battery from a vendor there for my Axim for
$20, I have 12vdc and 120vac chargers, so keeping it peaked wasn't a
problem driving to/from and staying at the B&B in Waupaca...

Mike Adams wrote:


So, I'm curious how this new service worked out. Was it free? How was the access from the North 40? I
wasn't there this year, but can see that this would be very handy for email and weather briefings. Then I
suppose the next challenge will be keeping the laptop batteries charged.

Mike

I was camped a few planes down from Jay, along the fence across the road
from Carpet World. I had no problem getting a wi-fi connection to the
EAA hot-spot with my Sony Vaio T350P, which has a built in 802.11g. The
problem was once you did connect, it got incredibly slow at times,
especially when the storms were coming in. Access was excellent at
off-times however. I couldn't see the Hilton or super-8 hot spots from
my airplane, but if I moved in toward the perimeter road on the airport,
I could see both. I did not have success connecting to either though.

The Sony battery is good for up to 9 hours depending on drive use.
"John Smith" was kind enough to buy a Honda 1KW generator and bring it
over for recharging laptops, cell phones and Garmins (thanks "John").
The power strip was fully populated most of the time he had the
generator running.

Mike Adams wrote:
So, I'm curious how this new service worked out. Was it free? How was the
access from the North 40? I
wasn't there this year, but can see that this would be very handy for email
and weather briefings. Then I
suppose the next challenge will be keeping the laptop batteries charged.
Mike

Ray Andraka wrote:
I was camped a few planes down from Jay, along the fence across the road
from Carpet World. I had no problem getting a wi-fi connection to the
EAA hot-spot with my Sony Vaio T350P, which has a built in 802.11g. The
problem was once you did connect, it got incredibly slow at times,
especially when the storms were coming in. Access was excellent at
off-times however. I couldn't see the Hilton or super-8 hot spots from
my airplane, but if I moved in toward the perimeter road on the airport,
I could see both. I did not have success connecting to either though.
The Sony battery is good for up to 9 hours depending on drive use.
"John Smith" was kind enough to buy a Honda 1KW generator and bring it
over for recharging laptops, cell phones and Garmins (thanks "John").
The power strip was fully populated most of the time he had the
generator running.

Your welcome Ray.
I sat there with my iBook G4 and could only see the hhonors site but
could not connect. Using iStumble, I could not even detect any others. I
should have brought my Airport Express to use as a repeater.

Oops! Should read, "You're welcome Ray."