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.
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.
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.
With home Wi-Fi, I now use my laptop in ways I never used to.
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.
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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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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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.
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.
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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When I was ten living in Milwaukee, WI, we had a next-door lady whose name was Frieda.
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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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"I could walk into your building and have Wi-Fi location working within an hour, " Atreya told the MIT review.
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.
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 test, where I use full brightness, disable power-saving software, leave on the Wi-Fi, and play a loop of music, the battery on the XPS 13 lasted just under four hours, the worst I've seen on an ultrabook.
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Wi-Fi follows me pretty much everywhere and 3G works well enough if that is all I have.
In my harsh battery test, where I play videos back to back with the screen set at 75% and the Wi-Fi on to collect email, the iPad mini exceeded Apple's battery life claim of 10 hours and lasted 10 hours and 27 minutes.
In my standard battery test, where I play videos back to back with the screen at 75% brightness and both Wi-Fi and cellular connections turned on, the Tablet P lasted just 5 hours and 16 minutes, about half the battery life of an iPad.
And as I expected from early reports, the 802.11a network had shorter range than a Wi-Fi network running alongside it.
"Before I started working here I always felt guilty not at least buying a bottle of water" when using the Starbucks Wi-Fi, Mr. Sigel said.
In my tough battery tests, where I set the screen to 75% brightness, turn off power-saving features, leave the Wi-Fi on and play locally stored videos until the machine dies, the Surface Pro did pathetically.
The two Ultrabooks booted up and rebooted much faster than most Windows laptops I've tested in the past, reaching a ready-to-use state, with Wi-Fi fully connected, in about 30 seconds when booting from scratch and under a minute on a reboot.
In my tough laptop test, where I turn off power-savings software, crank up the screen to 100%, leave the Wi-Fi on to collect email, and play a continuous loop of music, the XPS 12 lasted just 3 hours and 31 minutes.
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