Internet connection away from home

how do I connect wirelessly when away from home? I see people at airports sing the net, also at starbucks etc. but I can not get a signal. I am using 2 wire wireless to connect at home with no problems. Any help appreciated.
Mike

All you really need to do is have the Airport displayed on your menu bar, and when there is signal you will see the bars as being black rather than grey. You can click on the icon to list networks to attempt to connect to - if they're open you'll have no problems.

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Hi Brian,
Welcome To The Apple Discussion Pages.
The Ports are 5060, 5190, 5678, 16384-16403 for iChat on the AIM side.
These are all UDP if they need Protocols as well with port 5190 needing TCP as well.
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