What's with the CPH lounge lately?
Nov 10, 2015, 3:18 am
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Nov 10, 2015, 3:40 am
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(In the past I've found this one very unreliable, 'til the point where I just stopped using it. In chit-chat with a staff member they also said "wifi?! it never works, been like this for months". )
So it is really good news if the wifis are reliable now!
Nov 10, 2015, 3:51 am
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The free CPH wifi used to be really bad, some recent improvements have made it usable and only requires an email address to logon instead of creating an account.
While that is still a terrible setup and ideally it should work without captive portals, hopefully in the future they'll enhance it further to work like that.
While that is still a terrible setup and ideally it should work without captive portals, hopefully in the future they'll enhance it further to work like that.
Nov 10, 2015, 4:02 am
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The free CPH wifi used to be really bad, some recent improvements have made it usable and only requires an email address to logon instead of creating an account.
While that is still a terrible setup and ideally it should work without captive portals, hopefully in the future they'll enhance it further to work like that.
While that is still a terrible setup and ideally it should work without captive portals, hopefully in the future they'll enhance it further to work like that.
I think they just have crappy consumer routers and not really enterprise gateways which do limiting per connection, QoS and balancing so the number of people in the network decides what you get.
Nov 10, 2015, 4:41 am
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About the "Free wifi" - Are you talking about the one where you need to log in with a CPH advantage account or is there another "free wifi"?
(In the past I've found this one very unreliable, 'til the point where I just stopped using it. In chit-chat with a staff member they also said "wifi?! it never works, been like this for months". )
So it is really good news if the wifis are reliable now!
(In the past I've found this one very unreliable, 'til the point where I just stopped using it. In chit-chat with a staff member they also said "wifi?! it never works, been like this for months". )
So it is really good news if the wifis are reliable now!
Nov 10, 2015, 9:25 am
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In my experience both wifis have trouble at peak times. At regular times they are both OK. Actually the CPH wifi is kinda amazin. It works often after boarding the plane and also in the apron gates (from the bus, etc). I often use it so, as I have not data plan in DK.
Nov 11, 2015, 3:23 am
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The e-mail required to log-on is a legal requirement - and you only enter it once.
I can not recognise all the negative comments on this. But as with anything else if you approach it with a negative attitude then it will likely not be a positive experience.
Nov 11, 2015, 4:13 am
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I agree. At most gates I can sit in the airplane and still be on-line. In my book the CPH wifi experience is superior to most other airport.
The e-mail required to log-on is a legal requirement - and you only enter it once.
I can not recognise all the negative comments on this. But as with anything else if you approach it with a negative attitude then it will likely not be a positive experience.
The e-mail required to log-on is a legal requirement - and you only enter it once.
I can not recognise all the negative comments on this. But as with anything else if you approach it with a negative attitude then it will likely not be a positive experience.
Nov 11, 2015, 2:37 pm
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In my experience the Wifi in both CPH and OSL is still very bad, ARN seems to work fine. At OSL I usually have to switch to the Telia Hotspot to get decent enough bandwidth to work over our VPN while at CPH which doesn't even have a Telia Hotspot I'm just out of luck and limited to mails only.
Nov 12, 2015, 4:42 am
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Boingo is generally terrible, wether on the ground or in the air. Unfortunately in the air you don't have alternatives (at this point). Telia homerun either directly or with wifi-roaming partners usually works best for me, especially because I can login without captive portals.
I would welcome other airports designing their WIFI systems in such a way that they are available in the aircraft during boarding and deplaning in order to avoid the massive international roaming charges in certain parts of the world.
I would welcome other airports designing their WIFI systems in such a way that they are available in the aircraft during boarding and deplaning in order to avoid the massive international roaming charges in certain parts of the world.
Nov 12, 2015, 5:12 am
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Boingo is generally terrible, wether on the ground or in the air. Unfortunately in the air you don't have alternatives (at this point). Telia homerun either directly or with wifi-roaming partners usually works best for me, especially because I can login without captive portals.
I would welcome other airports designing their WIFI systems in such a way that they are available in the aircraft during boarding and deplaning in order to avoid the massive international roaming charges in certain parts of the world.
I would welcome other airports designing their WIFI systems in such a way that they are available in the aircraft during boarding and deplaning in order to avoid the massive international roaming charges in certain parts of the world.
Nov 12, 2015, 5:46 am
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Homerun on my iPhone somehow automatically works without any sign-in. I guess they match the phone to my Telia subscription on the background which makes it very comfortable.