Free wireless in Pittsburgh
 

Does anyone know where to go to find a good place to work, maybe drink coffee, and get free or cheap wireless?

Thanks :-:

Panera Bread has free wireless. Coffee is decent but not fantastic. OMNI William Penn hotel downtown has free wireless. It is a grand old hotel with very comfortable seating in the lobby and a Starbucks and a Bruegger's Bagels on premise. Other random independent coffee shops throughout the city also have free wireless. Mocha something in Bloomfield across the street from Tessario's does. That's all I can think of at the moment.

--Jon

That place in Bloomfield would be Crazy Mocha http://www.crazymocha.com/ Several locations in town, local chain. Because one of those is at the library, that might make for a good place to work. Caution, they allow smoking at the Bloomfield location.

Anywhere downtown has 2 hours of free wireless now, although getting a signal inside could be tricky. I've tried to join that network from inside my office, and it hasn't worked. Not sure if some laptops with better antennas might work, though. If you're near a window and near one of the access points for that, it might work. Buying up for more time only costs $14.99 for a month ($7.99 for a day). Here's the info with coverage area http://downtownpittsburgh.com/aboutP...ittsburgh.aspx

All the Paneras should have free wireless, as noted. http://www.panera.com/ All the Starbucks and Borders have T-Mobile Hotspot which is not very cost effective unless you already subscribe.

We might be able to narrow it a bit more if you say an area of town you'd like to be near. It's not the easiest place to get around, and recommending places that are far away (Panera if you're downtown, for instance, since there isn't one downtown) isn't likely to be that helpful.

Thanks for the advice. I will be in Bloomfield near Liberty Ave (I think that is the name iof the street). Is that library with free wifi that you mentioned close to there?

Thanks very much.

Hm. The library in question is the main Carnegie Library in Oakland. I mentioned it because there's a branch of Crazy Mocha in there, and it says free WiFi. I don't know if the free WiFi works througout the library, but it may. Not too far if you're driving, I guess, maybe a couple miles. http://clpgh.org/ if you need an address to get directions. I can point you roughly there but only roughly (take the Bloomfield Bridge, make a left, then the first right and go vaguely straight from there, but I think there will be more turns before the end; I can drive it but not describe it).

The other Crazy Mocha first mentioned above (by Tessaro's) is right on Liberty in Bloomfield. I doubt anything else in that immediate area has free WiFi.