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I feel your pain. The headquarters for Digital Hollywood, Loews Santa Monica, actually charges 25 cents a minute without a cap for wife in the lobby and mezzanine -- and doesn't guarantee access in the meeting rooms. You can imagine the react from a techy group ... The Plaza had an equally odious plan during Media Week.

Actually, 25 cents a minute for a wife is a pretty reasonable rate, in any location, even without a cap.

Oh, I’d say that a good wife is worth much more than 25 cents a minute; wouldn’t you, David?

AKMa, how can we answer this question if we don't even know if she's bareheaded? I mean, get serious, man!

I think a spouse is worth at least $131,400 a year, particularly one willing to haul the trash and clean the catbox. As your personal travel consultant, I suggest you buy a box of Pria bars and stick a couple of bars in your briefcase. Low glucose levels make travel miserable.

It appears that we have started to equate wifi with sex. Is the need for wifi like the need for sex? Is the need for wifi some primordal desire necessary for the continuation of the species? My vote is yes.

Now all this time I have been naively thinking that "wifi" rhymed with "hi-fi" - and it turns out that several contributors think it is related to "wifey". Since I work for an organization whose security gurus won't be letting us go wireless for several generations (i.e. maybe five or ten years), I guess I don't really have to know. But my spouse may want to...

Hotels tend to be unpredictably reasonable, generous or criminally arrogrant in providing net access, taking advantage of trapped individuals for fees based not at all on cost or value, and more on just what they can extract (more or less the equivalent of the $5 stadium hotdog). How about writing "Large Pieces (of _____) Completely Un-Joined?"

I attended a conference in NYC last month where the room net access was $12 for 24 hours while the conference sessions rooms had no net access unless one payed a $700 fee (for 1 hour). The "wireless" email lab was open only to the 25 wireless laptops provided by the company "sponsoring" wireless.

Too bad I did not know you were dropping into my home turf-- get over to the Scottsdale Public Library for free wifi (also free at libraries in Tempe, Chandler, Phoenix too I think, go libraries!):
http://library.ci.scottsdale.az.us/atmylibrary/wireless.htm

Also have colleagues here who are using Verizon's high speed wireless/cellphone access, works in most of metro Phoenix I am told (might be pricey, but if you travel alot to their service cities....)