David Pogue explains “Free Public Wi-Fi” in yesterday’s NY Times. Surprisingly, I hadn’t heard of this particular problem before.
Almost everywhere I go, in every city, I see, in my list of available networks, a wireless network called “Free Public Wi-Fi.”
And it never, ever works.
What is it? A hoax? A conspiracy? A nationwide coalition of pranksters? Turns out it’s neither a conspiracy nor a hoax: just a really, really stupid feature of Windows. I don’t totally understand it. (It’s explained here), but I do know it’s got to be one of the dumbest Windows features ever.
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