"Free" Wireless Internet 802.11b - Where?
 

Where is there "free" wireless internet connectivity at airports, hotels, etc. that I can use my new wireless card at?

I'm especially interested in airports right now.

The only free place I know of it HKG airport, take a look at www.wifinder.com for a nationwide search site on wireless sites. Most airports are operated by Wayport, Boingo or T-mobile and are not free.

- Munich airport; works with VPN as well

- Hong Kong Airport?? I couldn't get this to work at all. Got it working in the CX lounges though

- Nearly All CX lounges have FREE access

If you have a tmobile hot spot account that should cover you for nearly every AA admirals club area and SOME main areas in those same airports. Tmobile is STILL planning on adding more support and support for UA RCC's (even though UA can't afford it - Tmobile is paying for this entirely)

You are correct, it is free but only for lounge patrons.

You could pull up outside my place and probably mooch off my signal. http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/wink.gif

There are people who hunt the signals down outside of places and mark the sidewalk to alert others that there is an open network there. See

http://www.warchalking.org/

or many others about people who drive or walk around with some type of device (as a laptop is probably too big in most cases) looking for open networks.

If you have one in your house, you may want to make sure you have encryption on, for some reason most routers ship with it off. I also pop up the devices attached window, if anything other then what should be there it's time to reconsider wireless.

I think a good place to do research is www.netstumbler.com

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Michael Steinberg
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BizTrip
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Drive by my house in Indy, and you should be able to get to my access point...

Narita Airport

If you happen to visit Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, check out:

http://www.newburyopen.net/

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Michael Steinberg
Editor
BizTrip
www.biztrip.com

Air Canada installed "free" wi-fi in a number of their lounges. The only one i've used is at the MLL in T2. Works fine, but apparently, they're going to subscription in March?

FLL Terminal 1. Can't access it from inside the PC, though. Not sure who provides it and can't seem to find any information on it.

Schlotsky's Restaurants provide free wireless internet in most locations around Austin, along with iMacs and eMacs scattered around. They're calling it Cool Cloud for some reason.

Some McDonalds are starting to offer free wireless.

http://www.geektools.com/geektels/ lists hotels with 802.11 service, as well as high speed access (not always free). Hilton has beeen pretty good about implementing high-speed internet and 802.11 service in its hotels.

In my town, we have several coffee shops, restaurants, etc with free access. http://www.austinwireless.net lists them. Even the Alamo Drafthouse, a movie house that serves beer and food has 802.11.

It's kind of nice: Both my boyfriend and I have to be available to his clients and my employer at any time. With so many places around with access points, we don't have to limit ourselves to the house so much. We can run errands, hang out at a cafe, or grab some wings, a bucket of beer and a movie at Alamo, even when we're expecting we might have to have to hop on the 'net.

download the software at http://www.netstumbler.com and start poking around. you never know where you'll find something . . . http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttr...orum/smile.gif

For wi-fi locations worldwide, try these websites:

www.802.11hotspots.com
www.wififreespot.com
www.hotspot-locations.com
www.wi-find.com
www.wifinder.com