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SteveEisenberg · 12-13-2010, 09:54 PM

Early every morning, about an hour before I leave the house for my transit commute, Calibre pushes out news to my K3 via home WiFi. Works great.

By the evening commute, the news is stale. I have 3G, so the web browser is one option. But during my daily walk through the full width of Philadelphia's 30th Street Station earlier this evening, I got the idea that public WiFi could give a free.kindle.com injection every day as I trundled through.

So I stopped for a few minutes, in the station, to see what free WiFi was available. The Kindle WiFi networks window showed five unencrypted signals, with honors for most bars going to AmtrakConnect.

But I could not get any of the services to work

I almost connected to AmtrakConnect. The browser presents a home page where one must click a button to signify terms of use agreement. While I could move the Kindle cursor to this button, and the button properly highlighted, 5-way clicks did nothing. Trying a bookmarked web site resulted in the Kindle switching from WiFi to 3G.

Here is AmtrakConnect's web page:

http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/Conten...=1246044325520

"You will be able to use AmtrakConnect through any laptop or other portable device that is Wi-Fi enabled." So they say.

I welcome all pointers concerning this general class of problem.

12-13-2010, 09:54 PM	#1
SteveEisenberg Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,436 Karma: 43514536 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: near Philadelphia USA Device: Kindle Kids Edition, Fire HD 10 (11th generation)	AmtrakConnect WiFi Early every morning, about an hour before I leave the house for my transit commute, Calibre pushes out news to my K3 via home WiFi. Works great. By the evening commute, the news is stale. I have 3G, so the web browser is one option. But during my daily walk through the full width of Philadelphia's 30th Street Station earlier this evening, I got the idea that public WiFi could give a free.kindle.com injection every day as I trundled through. So I stopped for a few minutes, in the station, to see what free WiFi was available. The Kindle WiFi networks window showed five unencrypted signals, with honors for most bars going to AmtrakConnect. But I could not get any of the services to work I almost connected to AmtrakConnect. The browser presents a home page where one must click a button to signify terms of use agreement. While I could move the Kindle cursor to this button, and the button properly highlighted, 5-way clicks did nothing. Trying a bookmarked web site resulted in the Kindle switching from WiFi to 3G. Here is AmtrakConnect's web page: http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/Conten...=1246044325520 "You will be able to use AmtrakConnect through any laptop or other portable device that is Wi-Fi enabled." So they say. I welcome all pointers concerning this general class of problem.