What people do for WiFi

[nihil]

Amusing article here:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...-do.html?t51hb

[preacherman481]

Nihil, I don't know about England, but in the US a lot of motels advertise "Free Internet" service. Of course, what they mean is "Internet Service included in the price of the room." I wonder what they would say if someone took their laptop to the motel and asked them for the "Free Internet"?

[nihil]

Hi preacherman,

Yes, we have the same kind of thing over here. By "free" they mean that they don't charge customers anything extra, which some establishments do.

I live in a small town (pop. 32,000). We have the following facilities for free WiFi connections:

1. Railway station
2. Bus station.
3. 2 public libraries (also provide wired connection and PCs whilst open)
4. Tourist information office.

There are also hotels and bars, but you would be expected to buy something.

[t34b4g5]

I've done a few amusing things to get me some free interwebz. My favourite would have to be messing with a pay phone enough so that it would let me use a dial up account.

used to sneak out late at night. ( I was only a teenager and didn't have internet connection at parents house).
with my trusty p2 laptop that took near 5minutes to boot up and a further 5minutes to establish an dial up connection and at least 1 1/2 minutes to load up the browser.