{"id":559,"date":"2010-01-21T01:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=559"},"modified":"2023-11-24T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T21:01:23","slug":"free-airport-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2010\/free-airport-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Airport WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back nearly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2008\/travel-wifi\/\">2 years ago I wrote about the lack of &#8220;free&#8221;\u00a0wifi\u00a0at the Ottawa airport<\/a>, I was pleased to find out\u00a0they now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110714073353\/http:\/\/www.ottawa-airport.ca\/Newsroom\/pressReleasesZoom-e.php?prID=117\">offer free\u00a0wifi<\/a>. I&#8217;m not opposed to paying for\u00a0wifi\u00a0access, but most of the providers charge more than I&#8217;m willing to pay. \u00a0If it&#8217;s not free then I think the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100106065047\/http:\/\/www.starbucks.com\/retail\/wireless.asp\">Starbucks model<\/a> of buy something (a coffee card) and get access is a great way to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_0030.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-560\" title=\"IMG_0030\" src=\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_0030.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the image, there is still an optional pay service at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yow.ca\/en\">YOW<\/a> &#8211; but the free one is clearly marked. \u00a0I ran a quick\u00a0speedtest that showed 186kbps\u00a0down \/ 26kbps\u00a0up &#8211; not very fast but I don&#8217;t expect much for free. \u00a0It worked well enough to check\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">twitter<\/a> and get to my web mail.<\/p>\n<p>For this trip, I was headed to Florida. \u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandoairports.net\/faq.htm\">Orlando airport (MCO) also has free\u00a0wifi<\/a>, currently it is supported by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeholidaywifi.com\/\">Google through the holiday season<\/a> but it is always free. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been in several US airports which also have free\u00a0wifi\u00a0year round, and given that you&#8217;ll likely end up waiting around for your flight having\u00a0internet\u00a0access is a great way to while away the time.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally any location you end up waiting in for some undetermined amount of time should have (very) cheap or free\u00a0internet. \u00a0My\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kanatahonda.com\/\">car dealership<\/a> has free\u00a0wifi\u00a0in the waiting area, why not extend this to doctors offices, bus stops, train stations, banks, etc? \u00a0Imagine if the government decided that all of its public service centers (think passport office) would have free\u00a0wifi\u00a0&#8211; I&#8217;d be way more willing to sit patiently and wait.<\/p>\n<p>One last note &#8211; I&#8217;d like to recommend the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wifiget.com\/\">WiFi\u00a0Get<\/a> app for the iPhone\/iPod\u00a0Touch. I think it&#8217;s a must have app if you travel with your device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back nearly\u00a02 years ago I wrote about the lack of &#8220;free&#8221;\u00a0wifi\u00a0at the Ottawa airport, I was pleased to find out\u00a0they now\u00a0offer free\u00a0wifi. I&#8217;m not opposed to paying for\u00a0wifi\u00a0access, but most of the providers charge more than I&#8217;m willing to pay. \u00a0If it&#8217;s not free then I think the Starbucks model of buy something (a coffee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2010\/free-airport-wifi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free Airport WiFi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}