Educational Video
19 Aug 2005
Title: How to connect to a personal telco hotspot using Ubuntu
Audience: End-users, some windows or os x or linux experience
Start outside the cafe, with area citizen walking down the sidewalk.
As the citizen walks past a cafe, a PTP sticker in the window is
noticed.
Citizen: "This cafe has free wireless internet - lets stop in and
get on the net!"
Citizen walks up to the counter to order a coffee drink.
Citizen: "Hi. I'll take a mocha please"
Barrista: "Okay, that'll be right up."
Citizen walks over to a table and gets out the laptop.
He boots the laptop. Show the ubuntu boot messages.
Log in to ubuntu, start AP radar. Select a wireless
access point.
Start firefox, get the splash page.
Citizen: "This is a Personal Telco Node.
Thats how I know its legal and encouraged to use this access point."
Citizen clicks on I Agree on the splash page, then selects the original destination.
The original destination comes up.
Citizen: "That was easy!"
End of video