- What is wifi.com?
- Wifi.com provides consumers
with free, easy and secure WiFi connections when they are away from
their home or offices. The company is based in Seattle with operations
in USA and Europe. The company is led by experienced technology entrepreneurs
who joined forces to create a better WiFi experience.
- What are the main benefits
of wifi.com for consumers?
- Wifi.com enables users to
easily share their secure networks with their friends and colleagues.
Wifi.com enables users to connect to commercial networks (at hotels
or airports) on a per minute basis which can be significantly less expensive
than per day or month service providers. Wifi.com will enable
users to more securely browse the Internet when in public by encrypting
users' Internet connections.
- How do I get wifi.com?
- Sign up for our private beta by providing us your email at wifi.com
(http://www.wifi.com). We are constantly adding more
and more testers to our private beta ahead of the public launch.
- Why is the wifi.com beta
private?
- We are working diligently
to perfect our service. Beta testers provide us with great feedback.
We are looking forward to opening the beta to all users in what we hope
is the near future.
- What does wifi.com cost?
- The wifi.com service is free
today with the exception of premium minutes. (See What are Premium
Minutes below.)
- How can I share my secure
WiFi connection with friends?
- Wifi.com enables you to grant
access to your secure home or work wifi networks simply by sending an
invitation to your friends and colleagues through the Wifi.com manager.
No more remembering WEP keys or updating your friends with new keys
- the Wifi.com manager does this automatically. You can add friends
from your outlook contacts, hotmail, Gmail, and dozens of other programs
with a few quick clicks.
- Is sharing my WiFi connection dangerous?
- We recommend that you share
your WiFi connection only with the people you trust. Wifi.com
allows you to invite your friends and colleagues to use
your secure network without sharing your WEP key.
- Can I restrict access to my network to a person once I have granted them access?
- Yes. Go to wifi.com and log into your account and you will have the ability to add or remove people from accessing your network.
- Do I need extra hardware
if I want to share my WiFi?
- No.
Wifi.com provides a software application that works irrespective of
the hardware in place (obviously you must have a WiFi access point or
router, any kind will do). Wifi.com is compatible with any WiFi access
point or router.
- How do I use WiFi.com to
connect to WiFi networks?
- Wifi.com will enable you to
connect to open and secure hotspots regardless of whether you are using
Windows XP or a Mac. A vista client is coming in the near future.
Simply view available networks and select the network that you want.
- What are premium minutes?
- More and more wifi hotspots
are available free of charge, and we believe that this trend will continue.
However, there are many times when there isn't a free wifi hotspot
available. And, if you must pay for a wifi connection then we think
it should be as affordable and easy to access as possible. Wifi.com
lets you connect to premium networks on a per minute basis just like
a pre-paid phone card lets you make long distance calls. We have preloaded
your account with a $5 credit so that you can try this functionality
next time you are in an airport or hotel. Through our strategic partnership
with Whisher, you can recharge your premium minutes account any time
your account runs low.
- Does wifi.com allow me
to resell my network?
- Wifi.com does not support the
reselling of your network. We do make it easier to manage who can and
can not access your secure WiFi connection.
- How is wifi.com related
to Whisher?
- Whisher is a technology partner
of wifi.com. We have utilized many of their outstanding technologies
and added many of our own to create what we hope you will think is a
superior WiFi experience.
- How do I turn off wifi.com?
- If you ever want to turn off
wifi.com just launch the program select settings and choose stop program.
You can also uninstall the program by accessing the Windows control
panel and selecting "add and remove programs" and removing the application
called wifi.com.
