WiFi.com Blog

We launched a new homepage at WiFi.com yesterday. Additionally, you can see the changes to the blog. We hope you like the changes.

Over the next few weeks, all the core pages will undergo a new look and feel. Along with the look and feel changes, we are now offering a plethora of new wifi products and services.

What is missing, for the time being, is the wifi hotspots find tool. This tool is being overhauled for better functionality. We are also updating the wifi hotspots datadase with thousands of new hotspot locations. Stay tuned. We will keep you up to date through this blog or on the main WiFi.com homepage.

As you may have noticed, our blog has been off collecting dust for some time now. We were working diligently with our BETA testers to get our wifi client nailed. In conjunction with this we determined through independent research we were better off moving toward a web-based client. Furthermore, we want to offer our visitors the best wifi hotspot directory: Free, Paid, or otherwise.

For the time being we are moving servers and unfortunately the hotspots database is not working correctly. The database was connected to our client and the new one will be untied from the client, so this will take a few days to get it all converted.

For those of you trying to use or download the client, it is no longer available on any platform. There are specific directions to remove the client from your system on the FAQ page.

We hope you continue to use our wifi database of hotspots and also check out some of the deals we will be offering in the way of low-cost wifi and wimax services. These will be available very soon and we will update you right here and on the main page of the site.

Recently two researchers found one of the wifi encrypion standards which was previously not cracked can be overcome when used in conjuction with a feature which improves VOIP using a wifi network. This is a simplified explanation, of course, and without going to extreme detail about the various encryption standards it can now be said a wifi connection may not be safe when using WEP and WPA/WPA2 (TKIP).

Unless you are using a software or hardware package which addresses your security issues, WiFi.com recommends setting up your network using the Advanced Ecryption Standard (AES). If someone really wants to get into your network, they will do it. However, considering the US government uses this standrad for their own networks and it is the b est one can get at this time, you should feel relatively secure using AES for your wifi network.