Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless

An anonymous reader writes "The City of Baltimore has made free wireless internet available in the Inner Harbor in hopes of bringing in more tourists and business conventions. According to this article on Sunspot Internet service will be available free of charge to portable computers from the Baltimore Science Center to the World Trade Center along the touristy waterfront. Need to check your e-mail when sailing the Chesapeake Bay? Just dock at the Rusty Scupper and whip out your laptop."

Woohoo!

[Anonymous Coward]

Warsailing here I come... I'll bring a new meaning to piracy on the open seas.

Sweet!

[whitelabrat]

Now the homeless in Baltimore can be geeks too!

Re:Sweet!

[Anonymous Coward]

The homeless in Baltimore already ARE geeks. They're laid off tech workers.

Dock?

[nate1138]

Just dock at the Rusty Scupper and whip out your laptop

Why bother? Just make sure you pick up a can of pringles before you set sail.

WiFi

[rf0]

So this means that I can be floating on a boat, enjoying the sun, the smell of the harbour and reading /. What more could a geek want apart from a girlfriend, faster laptop, respect from hispeers

Great :)

Rus

Arr! A pirate's life for geeks!

[Anonymous Coward]

Would ye be liking some sea fries with that crabby patty, matey? SPONGEBOB! I'm not paying you to lie around leeching the bandwidth.

Tourism? What Do You Base Your Trips On?

[H8X55]

come for the orioles, stay for the WiFi.

PS - Last time we checked, there were enough open business networks available, city sponsered ones aren't necessary.

I'm at UMBC and....

[FluffyG]

this will keep me from being at school because now i can sit in hooters all day with my laptop.... THANK YOU BALTIMORE!

Re:Woohoo!

[lommer]

Now there's an idea: Get a tricked out antenna with which you can reach the harbour wireless (you might need to set up a shore-based repeater in order to recieve signals going the other way). Then, you sit out in international waters with a multi-terabyte mp3 collection just sharing away. Let's see the RIAA try to sue you now...

Re:Woohoo!

[Kosi]

They'd send you this baby [fas.org] over.

And they even have the gall of calling it

[TheMidget]

Penguin! Oh the insolence!

Yes, but the real trick....

[Anonymous Coward]

will be surviving the three blocks between the parking garage and the inner harbor with your $2000 laptop.