Wifi Help For Thickton !!!

[hammerman]

Hi all, please be gentle with me. I was given a Tesco Hudl for xmas. Got it working fine and linked up to my wifi internet at home.

Now can i only use this in places where i tap in a code and password....eg my parents house or the local pub or should i be able to pick up some sort of free wifi if im at work or im in the street etc (if there is such a thing as free wifi)

Bit baffled by all this technology and my 4 year old grandaughter won't be over till later to show me how to use it....lol

Thanks in advance

M

[RATTER15]

Yes, you should be able to, usually just a password and if there is free WiFi available you should be able to tap into that as well but you may still need a password in some places.

[Buenchico]

The Hudl doesn't have 3G (or 4G), so you can't connect it to the mobile phone network (for which you'd have to pay anyway).

So you can only use it where there's a convenient wifi network. That provides you with an excellent excuse for visiting Wetherspoon's pubs (which all have free wifi) but many other places also offer free wifi, such as larger Tesco and Asda stores. (I've often used my netbook in the Costa coffee bars wihin Tesco stores).

If you get your internet at home through BT you can connect, free of charge, to the BT Hub of any other BT customer (and of their business customers as well) as long as they've not disabled that facility. (It's perfectly secure, as the 'home' and 'public' connections available through a BT Hub are completely separate; it's a condition of using the service that you leave it enabled on your own BT Hub).

If you've not got BT as your ISP you can still use their service but it costs you £6 per month. (That's what I do). You can also pay by the hour or by the day but it's far, far more expensive to do it that way.

There's no 'general' public free wifi service in the UK (except within the City of London); you need to use one of the services I've mentioned above (although the number of shops, banks, railway stations, etc offering free wifi is growing rapidly).

Some overseas cities have much better free wifi access. e.g. Paris has an excellent system (available across all parks and public buildings), which I've used several times.

[Sqad]

Yes RATTER is correct, any hot spots will be available to you BUT if you want internet connection 24/7 wherever you may be, then you will need a contract with Vodafone, or one of the other suppliers in the UK.

[Sqad]

Oops! Sorry, Buenchico' answer is more helpful.

[RATTER15]

I stand corrected!

[anotheoldgit]

I receive so many free minutes of WiFi with my Virgin package. But like the op I also do not know how to set up my Google Nexus tablet so as to take use of them.

Is that what the op's problem is also?

[Buenchico]

For AOG:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-connect-to-a-wifi-network-on-your-nexus-7.html
(Omit Step 4)