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Smart Machines <br />Floating BY WALTER S. MOSSBERG <br />Too many modem hassles when you travel? Cut the line and go wireless. <br />.- � - ; ... tea. • izl , � <br />i <br />into the hotel phone system, which <br />r � <br />may involve moving furniture to <br />locate a jack and/or reeling out a <br />long cord. It also means finding a <br />local number for your. Internet ac- <br />//- cess provider and programming it <br />-P into your software, along with <br />whatever dialing codes the hotel's <br />gyp. <br />phone requires. And it may mean <br />'. , figuring out a way to get the soft- <br />~; N. �.'.• ware to dial using your credit card, <br />so each on-line session doesn't get <br />priced at usurious hotel phone <br />rates. Only then can you check <br />your, e-mail. <br />::.• .•�, tis�,�; �; It can be even worse at air- <br />'":,� ports, where those fancy new pay <br />phones that claim to work with <br />laptops usually don't. Even the <br />rr ' phones in the costly airline clubs <br />may be tough to hook up. <br />�a. But there's a way around all <br />- that hassle: a wireless modem that <br />F YOU'RE A business traveler, check- setting up your computer and modem to connects you to the Internet without using <br />ing into a hotel requires more than get- work with the hotel's phone system —if any phone lines or telephones, not even <br />ting a key and unpacking your clothes. you can do so at all. cellular phones. It's easy to use, reliable <br />You're likely to spend up to an hour That requires plugging your modem and not much more expensive than tradi- <br />No VEMBER 3.997 <br />.SMARTM0 N E Y <br />