I was little confused when I saw this topic and now only realized this an old post. Now all those facilities are available. Nice to see these old talks.
Wifi is local - about 100 feet. If you wish wireless high speed internet, associate a corpuscle hype organization. A organization's high speed internet protection is about the same as their mobile protection. If you want to be on their LAN, you need XP Pro or Windows vista Business on your laptop.