Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: How to get online - anywhere

Hi. This is Peter Cochrane for silicon.com out and about in a London Street. It's a nice bright spring day and as I walk about I'm seeing lots of people using mobile phones and mobile devises. I'm very often asked by people - how do I find where to connect when I'm on the road? Well the simple answer is, I look at what other people are doing, but I also look for people with coffee. If I see somebody walking down the street with a coffee cup in their hand, I backtrack them because sure enough there will be a café and in the café there will be wi-fi. But I also look up in the air. I look for antennas and if you know your antennas you can see the 2.5G -3G mobile phone antennas. And if you look on the walls of buildings you can see the occasional wi-fi antenna too. So the answer is - getting online may require a bit of technology, but a little bit of knowledge can go a long way too! See you next time…