I've been staying at a hotel in Houston this week where there's a T-Mobile hotspot. Unfortunately, coverage in my hotel room offers erratic connections, so I'm forced to work from the lobby. This is my first experience with T-Mobile's Wi-Fi service, and I noticed that after logging in they leave an Internet Explorer (IE) window on your desktop that identifies your connection status and provides a means for logging off. This creates a problem because the window size is fixed, and using any IE shortcut on your desktop causes the website to open in the very small fixed-size window (that you can't resize). This problem only occurs if your IE options are set to reuse windows when launching shortcuts, which unfortunately is the default setting. The only way you can view websites via desktop IE shortcuts with the T-Mobile Wi-Fi service is to disable the reuse of windows for launching shortcuts, which can be found in IE under Internet Options Advanced tab. If you're deploying a public Wi-Fi system, I recommend not using the fixed window status mechanism to avoid user confusion.

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