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Free WiFi at Logan - but only for the holidays
By adamg on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 7:48am
Looky here - Google is sponsoring free wireless at Logan and a bunch of other airports now through Jan. 15.
Via Steve Garfield, who has been banging the free-WiFi-at-Logan drum for longer than anybody.
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They should be careful what
They should be careful what they give away during the busy times, when those people come back in a few months they will wonder where all the free wifi went.
Twitter me this!
Keep it!
There should just be free wifi all the time at the airport. People are stuck there, but not long enough to justify the excessive cost.
It is stupid to buy it when you are there only an hour or two, and they should provide it as a courtesy when you are stuck there for several hours. Ask the airlines to chip in toward the cost. It can't be much, and I doubt it is currently profitable anyway. Most companies don't spring for that anymore.
I find the whole $8 a day thing infuriating, and another sign of how far behind the times Logan Armpit is. Besides, you can get free wifi from Starbucks ... if you can find a seat or an outlet.
Are you sure?
Most Starbuckses have pay-to-use wifi. Does the airport one have free wifi?
(Of course, most Starbuckses are within range of some other place's free wifi, so who tf actually is paying the $10 or whatever ridiculous price they charge?)
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Same AT&T deal as elsewhere
You get one of their gift cards, put some money on it, and use it. Register it, and you get free wifi so long as you have used your card recently.
Aha
Didn't know that. My families like to give me Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts cards when their kids graduate from the program, so I've got a wallet full of 'em!
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So, it isn't really free
My girlfriend tried using the Starbucks method, and on the second time, she couldn't get online. She gave up and went to the library.
On the other hand, hats off to Harvard University, which now has a "guest" node that works in much of Harvard Square. Proved quite convenient while sitting in the warmth of Brattle Square yesterday.
If your signing onto a
If your signing onto a network in Brattle Square called HarvardSquare it is actually run by the Harvard Square Business Association (of which Harvard is a member) www.harvardsquare.com
harvard
no hats off to Harvard.... there's not a place on campus that you can get free wifi from the university. As a Dartmouth student, I find Dartmouth's campus wide free wifi for ANYBODY deserving of praise, but certainly not the most ostentatiously rich and stuck up Harvard. You can't even log into a computer on campus without a username and password, let alone use their wifi. I've spent the past two days here, and am forced to wait outside Peet's Coffee and Tea in Harvard square to get the internet access to write this.
If at first you don't succeed, call tech support
It took me quite a while to connect for the first time at Starbucks, but it did work, eventually. Pain in the but but it worked.
Not me
I don't pay to use Starbucks WiFi...I use my iPhone. :)
AT&T provides free WiFi at all Starbucks through the iPhone. You just tell the uplink your phone number and it sends you a text with an access URL that works for the next few hours.
Free wifi everywhere!
Oh, I usually just surf the web with my iPhone over the cell connection. I don't usually even have wifi enabled on it. But sometimes when I'm doing more involved work, I like to be able to go somewhere and use my laptop so I can copy/paste between the web and a full-sized document and stuff like that.
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Yep. After several years,
Yep. After several years, I'm still annoyed by the fact that WiFi at Logan was initially free, and something they used as a selling point. I will never agree to pay for it. It's just one more way of letting them kick us in the butt as we go through the many "pleasures" of airline travel.
When I lived in Mountain
When I lived in Mountain View, the free Google wireless was slow as molasses. Hopefully the airport version is better. I doubt it will be as good as the Jet Blue terminal at JFK. Their wireless has always been really speedy for me.
TANSTAAFL
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Someone has to pay for it. If the airlines have to chip in (either directly, or via increased fees to use the airport), then they'll pass it on in the form of higher airfares or fees.
Massachusetts pretends to be a High Tech Center
Portland Oregon and Hong Kong airports manage smartly to provide free WiFi to travellers.
MassPort should get with the program and work with Google or whoever to do the same.
Other airports too
I've been to other airports that also provide free Wifi. We are just backward, shortsighted and greedy here.
Here's who pays for it:
People who are spending other people's money. No, I'm not talking about politicians (this time) but business travelers. They pay the exorbitant airfares, hotel rates, order the most expensive thing on the menu, etc. because they have the corporate credit card/expense account. What's a few more bucks for a couple minutes of connectivity when they're already racking up thousands for the business trip overall?