There are a couple ways they could approach this. One of which is to have a login page at each hot spot (the way they do now) and have users select their provider and login with their normal account information. This approach would be acceptable to me. The other option however, would require a Daemon/Service/whatnot to be running on the device that was roaming to try and make the process more seamless. While it would be nice to be able to walk into any place with a hotspot, whip out my PDA, and start catching up on my daily news without any login hassles, I can see device support being a problem. Specifically, I can see companies trying to keep the software for this closed (in spite of a published open standard) purely because they see open source/protocols as making it easier for people to cheat the system (however wrong they may be). WiFi is almost useless to me if I can't get to it from the Linux side of things.
Just my $0.02 ramblings.
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There are a couple ways they could approach this. One of which is to have a login page at each hot spot (the way they do now) and have users select their provider and login with their normal account information. This approach would be acceptable to me. The other option however, would require a Daemon/Service/whatnot to be running on the device that was roaming to try and make the process more seamless. While it would be nice to be able to walk into any place with a hotspot, whip out my PDA, and start catching up on my daily news without any login hassles, I can see device support being a problem. Specifically, I can see companies trying to keep the software for this closed (in spite of a published open standard) purely because they see open source/protocols as making it easier for people to cheat the system (however wrong they may be). WiFi is almost useless to me if I can't get to it from the Linux side of things.
Just my $0.02 ramblings.
This post brought to you by the guy in the apartments above this coffee house with non-WEP enabled AP.