IT'S OFFICIAL: Free AT&T WiFi for iPhone

zwsdotcom@gmail.com wrote:
> On May 9, 9:40 am, Ron <roncliff...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>
>>> I wish they would just announce what username/password you're supposed
>>> to use. The regular ATTWS customer login details don't work.
>> I'm not sure free WiFi is available for "regular cellular customers"
>> from ATT.
>
> I'm not a regular cellular customer, I'm an iPhone customer (two
> iPhones and two other phones on a single account). The login screen
> asks for a userID AND a password. The only password I have for ATTWS
> is the password I use to log into my billing account, which doesn't
> work.

http://gizmodo.com/388988/att-change...r-iphone-users

Steve Mackay <steve_mackay@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:48249dac$0$12974$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:

>
> http://gizmodo.com/388988/att-change...otspot-access-
> for-iphone-users
>

http://gizmodo.com/388699/native-orb...to-your-iphone

Cool! They finally got Orb! to run on iphone. There may be some use for
this thing, yet....(c;

Larry wrote:
> Steve Mackay <steve_mackay@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:48249dac$0$12974$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
>
>> http://gizmodo.com/388988/att-change...otspot-access-
>> for-iphone-users
>>
>
> http://gizmodo.com/388699/native-orb...to-your-iphone
>
> Cool! They finally got Orb! to run on iphone. There may be some use for
> this thing, yet....(c;
>

That is, if ORB has got their act together better than they did a year
ago. I tried using it for a few months, and scheduled recordings didn't
work out as planned, the Orb software would sit there at 100% CPU load
for no reason(on an AMD Athlon X2) and the quality wasn't NEARLY as good
as the slingbox. So I ended up buying a slingbox. But the iPhone client
now has me re-thinking the ORB thing, but... They don't have the guide
setup for AT&T Uverse yet.

Steve Mackay <steve_mackay@hotmail.com> wrote in news:482b495d$0$5153
$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:

> That is, if ORB has got their act together better than they did a year
> ago.

I have Orb running on desktops at the home of GIs who are in Iraq and
Afghanistan. They logon over military wifi to Orb and watch their fav
shows and ballgames, on their own cable, from the other side of the
planet....(c;

Great fun to setup and run.

The wives make videos with the kids and family, even from their Sellphones,
store them in the Orb video directory, then Daddy can watch them at his
leisure while the family is asleep at 3AM local time. He can leave his
videos on Orb for them to see in reply.

Larry wrote:
> Steve Mackay <steve_mackay@hotmail.com> wrote in news:482b495d$0$5153
> $4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
>
>> That is, if ORB has got their act together better than they did a year
>> ago.
>
> I have Orb running on desktops at the home of GIs who are in Iraq and
> Afghanistan. They logon over military wifi to Orb and watch their fav
> shows and ballgames, on their own cable, from the other side of the
> planet....(c;
>
> Great fun to setup and run.
>
> The wives make videos with the kids and family, even from their Sellphones,
> store them in the Orb video directory, then Daddy can watch them at his
> leisure while the family is asleep at 3AM local time. He can leave his
> videos on Orb for them to see in reply.
>

I used it when they were just on to Orb 2.0 from 1.4 IIRC. All kinds of
ORB 2.0 problems at that time. So I take it they've improved a bit? :)

Steve Mackay <steve_mackay@hotmail.com> wrote in news:482c9133$0$30238
$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:

> I used it when they were just on to Orb 2.0 from 1.4 IIRC. All kinds of
> ORB 2.0 problems at that time. So I take it they've improved a bit? :)
>
>

Orb on Win XP SP2 works great. We'll see on SP3. I just installed it,
tonight....zzzzzZZZZZzzzzz