I'm in Vancouver so I'm pretty close to you.

1. Why do you want an N810? Unless you want that GPS ability, I think you'll be extremely happy with an N800 (at $230 at TigerDirect instead of $420 for the N810). *And* you can buy cheap memory cards and swap them into the N800 (which you can't do with the N810). If you don't like tapping on the screen, then a $40 bluetooth portable keyboard works well (bumping up the final price to $270). I got the portable keyboard and, frankly, I find that tapping out web addresses and some passwords or short notes isn't a big a problem as I thought it would be and my keyboard is usually closed and sitting in its pouch.

2. I'm with Telus for my intenet and have a separate wireless router (which was *much* better than the Seimans gateway Telus first sent me. My present set-up, a Thompson SmartTouch modem and Linksys WRT54GL router, is waaay better).

I can access my N800 from down the hallway of my apartment building. So if you have wireless at home, you should be fine if your wireless gateway or router is decent.

I had to spend a few days attending a training session at the hotel across the street from the Richmond Hospital two weeks ago and I got free WiFi access from somewhere in the area (that wasn't part of the hotel's set up even though I was in the hotel when I was on it). I've also been dragged to a few Richmond malls and I was impressed by how many of them have free WiFi, too.

Finally, as long as you find a Blenz coffeeshop, you have free Wifi (although sometimes you do have to ask for the key code to enter onto your N800). I think Starbucks is going to go free WiFi soon, too. The Vancouver Public Library has free internet access so I wouldn't be surprised if the Richmond Public Library also has it.

Since I'm so incredibly old, I have no idea if public schools have free WiFi since the last time I went to school was last century.

So, even in Richmond, there's probably a lot of common places you can get WiFi.

Can you get it everywhere? Nope - unless your parents are willing to pay quite a lot of money per month for a cellphone plan just for your portable internet connection. Then again, I can honestly say I've seen very few people actually have cellphone internet capabilities in Vancouver. I've seen business people with Blackberries... but that's not the same thing as a PSP or N800/N810 (and those people are most probably getting the bills paid by their company).