Here I am sitting in the Vancouver airport waiting for my flight, writing a blog post using the free wifi access.\u00a0 It isn’t all that speedy – but its free.\u00a0 The Las Vegas airport also had free wifi, and better speeds.<\/p>\n
Now the Ottawa airport doesn’t have free wifi – they’ve partnered with Boingo to provide a for fee service.\u00a0 At least the wifi in Ottawa gives you access to the airport website for free, so you can check flights etc.<\/p>\n
If you naively connect to the Boingo wifi and open your browser, you are redirected to the page which lets you sign up.\u00a0 You can choose between a monthly rate of $11.95 or a 24hr pass for $9.95.\u00a0 The monthly rate seems like a deal.\u00a0 Of course you can also use your Boingo account a number of other places, but from what I saw it wasn’t enough other places to make it useful.<\/p>\n
Examining the URL that I was redirected to, it was clear I was getting a special deal via a promo code: &PROMO=UNL01093CAD3.\u00a0 Removing that promo code, resulted in the same page – but with different pricing.\u00a0\u00a0 Monthly jumps to $14.95 and 24hrs drops to $6.95.\u00a0 Seems like the promo code doesn’t really help as much as it should.<\/p>\n
Digging around, Boingo also provides 30 days free for mobile access.\u00a0 If you read the terms of service, they specifically restrict laptops.<\/p>\n
The National Captial Freenet<\/a> offers DSL service for about $30 a month, and encourages you to share it with your neighbours.\u00a0 While the costs might be slightly different for something the scale of an airport, it has to pale in comparison to some of the other airport costs.\u00a0 Most of them levy an airport improvement fee in any case.\u00a0 If you didn’t want to squeeze out the for fee providers, just make the bandwidth and reliability the distinguishing factor.<\/p>\n Time to get on a plane..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here I am sitting in the Vancouver airport waiting for my flight, writing a blog post using the free wifi access.\u00a0 It isn’t all that speedy – but its free.\u00a0 The Las Vegas airport also had free wifi, and better speeds. Now the Ottawa airport doesn’t have free wifi – they’ve partnered with Boingo to … Continue reading “Travel & WiFi”<\/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":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap-box","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}