From my simple home connection consisting of a Comcast cable modem and wi-fi I can watch anything on Hulu.com without those annoying mid-streams pauses.
If I wanted to play a Si-fi game I would play Gears of War or Halo!
Different than my BlackBerry, where I had to physically attach the device with a USB cord, the Droid is configured as a mobile hotspot so all I have to do is connect to it from my laptop (after turning on Wi-Fi) like I connect to any Wi-Fi router in an office or at Starbucks.
With home Wi-Fi, I now use my laptop in ways I never used to.
Captured by YouTube user Colin Miller, Mr Nazir's refrain of "Come on ladies, come on ladies, one pound fi-i-i-ish!"
Daughter number two has just got home and on stepped into a wi-fi perimeter I created around my house, prompting her phone to text mine.
Then, just 36 hours before Residential Home was supposed to close on the re-fi, I received a call from the trust company handling the deal informing me that the bank was insisting both my wife and me be named on the deed.
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Both those locations have wi-fi, so I can work before my appointment arrives, and stay afterwards for coffee or some more work.
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But in general, I found the Wi-Fi calling acceptable, if not pristine, as long as I wasn't walking too far away from the Wi-Fi hot spot.
This gives EU banks offering forex trading to U.S. customers time to register in the U.S. But I think FI refers to banks and not CFTC-registered FCMs, which probably include the FDMs (forex-dealer merchants, the prior designation) too.
Perhaps it is the fault of bookstores for pulling Fantasy and Sci-Fi into one category: I like both, but elves and magic swords don't exist, while the solar system and the stars do.
To make sure my Wi-Fi wasn't faulty, I tried some of the same sites, in the same spot, on an iPhone, an Android phone and even an older Samsung Windows Phone.
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In my harsh tablet battery test, where I play a constant loop of video with the screen set to 75 % brightness and Wi-Fi on to retrieve email in the background, I got almost exactly five hours, which is Asus's official battery life estimate.
Now I hear that Wi-Fi offloading is finally catching on with U.S. service providers, some of whom will announce deployments as early as this week.
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For instance, after the installation seemed done, I discovered I had lost the Wi-Fi Internet connection on both machines and had to temporarily turn off the firewall to restore it and then upgrade my antivirus software.
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When that was over, I connected to the onboard wi-fi for a couple hours of emailing, tweeting and blogging.
The optional, extra-cost, 4G LTE cellular-data capability made it feel like I was always on a fast Wi-Fi connection.
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"Meanwhile, I welcome the fact that the Wi-Fi payload data that should never have been collected in the first place can, at last, be deleted, " he said.
And I went and pitched them a new sci-fi series that a friend of mine had written.
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Sure, the iPhone 5 has a taller screen and 4G, but I typically use my smartphones over a Wi-Fi connection.
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Between the sci-fi future of Project Glass and this intriguing new Pixel, I find myself getting more and more excited about Google hardware.
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"I could walk into your building and have Wi-Fi location working within an hour, " Atreya told the MIT review.
Free from the siren call of wi-fi (the Zambezi chooses not to offer it) and clocks, I began opening up to my surroundings.
In my current role as editor of the Forbes Investor (FI) and Forbes Special Situation Survey (SSS) investment newsletters, I get to do this every day.
My indefatigable butler spent years working at European hotels but approached me with a friendly ease, chatting about the Seu Jorge music I was listening to while he fixed my flaky Wi-Fi.
That means I'd have to wait to look up "defenestrate" if, say, I'm near the window of a skyscraper without Wi-Fi.
Wi-Fi follows me pretty much everywhere and 3G works well enough if that is all I have.
In trying to wrap my head around the Karma hotspot a new prepaid 4G mobile hotspot service that relies on a novel model I keep coming back to the (often post-Apocalyptic) sci-fi stories where some other commodity or service has supplanted cash or gold as the chief currency.
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