Galveston.com & Company is pleased to provide free wireless internet zones at locations throughout the city, as a convenience to our loyal visitors.
Wi-Fi, or Wireless Fidelity, is freedom: it allows you to connect to the Internet from a your restaurant table, a bed in a hotel room or a conference room at work without wires. How? Wi-Fi is a wireless technology like a cell phone. Wi-Fi enabled computers send and receive data indoors and out; anywhere within the range of a base station. And the best thing of all, it's fast. In fact, it's several times faster than the fastest dial-up modem connection.
The Galveston.com Wi-Fi Network is a member of Wi-Fi ZONE(TM) program. Only service providers that meet the Wi-Fi ZONE deployment and service standards are allowed to be a Wi-Fi ZONE. This assures that websurfers will consistently enjoy a first-rate Wi-Fi® connection. The Wi-Fi Alliance is a nonprofit international association formed in 1999 to certify and promote interoperability of wireless LAN products based on IEEE 802.11 specification.
The following Galveston.com Wi-Fi Zones are available to everyone with a wireless compatible computer, completely free of charge:
3618 Seawall Blvd.
Galveston, Texas
(409)763-2375 Find Out More
The Commodore on the Beach is in the heart of Galveston Island's ambience, right on the waterfront at 37th and Seawall Boulevard. That beachfront corner is the Island's midsection – to the east are Stewart Beach and Galveston's restored architectural treasures and museums; an equal distance to the west are the world-class attractions of Moody Gardens.
2408 Strand
Galveston, Texas
(409)765-9300 Find Out More
JuJu has become well known to locals and cruise ship passengers for delicious burgers, gourmet nachos, great salads, handcut French fries, and excellent salads. Kids and adults love the free Playstation 2 set-ups that add to the fun and festive atmosphere.
628 Seawall Blvd. at 7th St.
Galveston, Texas
(409)763-1693 Find Out More
Three words say it all - pizza, pasta, seafood. Not that this recently-updated classic doesn't make a mean chicken dish, but the folks who have returned again and again for 25 years have come for the food they grew up on. Hungry families know that an authentic New York flavor still pervades all the deck-oven pizza specialties, but now Mario's also carries wood-burning gourmet pizzas.
3204 Seawall Blvd.
Galveston, Texas
(409)621-5237 Find Out More
Located at 32nd and Seawall, The Spot offers gourmet hamburgers, fresh seafood, ice cream, fresh-baked desserts and bread, an arcade, a tiki bar, and one of Galveston's largest open air decks overlooking the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.
23rd St. and The Strand
Galveston, Texas
This convenient wi-fi zone is great for downtown visitors, offering a great signal for either nearby Saengerfest Park, restaurants, or area benches.
If you've been in an airport, coffee shop, library or hotel recently, chances are you've been right in the middle of a wireless network. Many people also use wireless networking, also called WiFi or 802.11 networking, to connect their computers at home, and an increasing number of cities use the technology to provide free or low-cost Internet access to visitors and residents. In the near future, wireless networking may become so widespread that you can access the Internet just about anywhere at any time, without using wires.
Wi-Fi uses radio waves, just like cell phones, televisions and radios do. In fact, communication across a wireless network is a lot like two-way radio communication. A computer's wireless adapter translates data into a radio signal and transmits it using an antenna. A wireless router receives the signal and decodes it. It sends the information to the Internet using a physical, wired Ethernet connection.
The process also works in reverse, with the router receiving information from the Internet, translating it into a radio signal and sending it to the computer's wireless adapter.
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