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This link provides very simple instructions on how to get free internet. All you need is a free AP within line of sight of the antenna. Antenna height helps.
This can be some rest areas along the interstate, Starbucks, McDonalds, Office Depot (I think...) and many others. You can get surprisingly good range. Please dont use this to rip off people that have home wifi. But unless it has an obvious AP name, you wont really know. Just be assured that you will find many signals in a city.
I have build this antenna, using a parabolic shaped heat lamp used in barns. $10.00 for the "antenna", $2-$3 for hardware, abotu %50 for the USB wifi adaptor, and maybe 1 hour to assemble it. It works.
Once you have the antenna, use NetStumbler to locate signals. It's automatic. Then use your USB adaptor software to connect to that signal. It is so much easier to use netstumbler to find signals, because you can just move the antenna by hand until it locates a signal.