Free WiFi at McDonalds

scooter100_2

Looking on the McDonalds website it appears most of them have free Wifi hotspots.Anyone know if they are any good for download speeds?

[Deleted User]

They're fine for web browsing.

scooter100_2

anewhope wrote: »

They're fine for web browsing.

What about downloads?Im thinking of downloading my IPlayer content courtesy of McDonalds instead of paying through the nose with my ISP.

Lorian

scooter100 wrote: »

What about downloads?Im thinking of downloading my IPlayer content courtesy of McDonalds instead of paying through the nose with my ISP.

Unless you live next door you are going to need to buy a lot of coffee.

scooter100_2

Lorian wrote: »

Unless you live next door you are going to need to buy a lot of coffee.

Does it not work in the car park?:D

kwikbreaks

Plus you should never use a public WiFi for anything requiring your login details. It could end up costing you rather more than an excess bandwidth charge.

scooter100_2

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Plus you should never use a public WiFi for anything requiring your login details. It could end up costing you rather more than an excess bandwidth charge.

Would only use to download IPlayer content.

[Deleted User]

scooter100 wrote: »

What about downloads?Im thinking of downloading my IPlayer content courtesy of McDonalds instead of paying through the nose with my ISP.

You won't be able too. They enforce session limits for data transfer combined with filter/restrictions on what you can and cannot do with their service. P2P is not one of the things they permit.

nomoneytoday

It's designed for a bit of surfing and email checking...

vikingaero

scooter100 wrote: »

Does it not work in the car park?:D

I've tried a few McDonalds and in most I've not been able to get WiFi in the car park, even when parked right next door to the building. I'm wondering whether their windows have a reflective coating. If it does it seems to cut out the WiFi signal or maybe they run the WiFi at a lower power output to reduce range?

alanwjones

I connected to McD, while on holiday last week, 1MB speed, better than at home, could you not use a downloads manager and re connect if connection is dropped