"free" Wifi - where and the "real" cost

jobbingmusician

Greene King pubs
Pret a Manger I think (haven't used for a while, but I think it did go 'free')
Local libraries - you can usually piggyback on to their wi fi if you have your own machine WITHOUT membership, in my experience!

cjcooper

doyle vollection hotels offer free wifi, there are 3 in london, bloomsbury, marylebone and kensington, i have just gone and sat in the foyers and logged on, most of the time you get left alone

Morty_007

Any more for any more? List is padding out a bit now! Thanks to everyone who has contriubuted so far.

Lost2

Preston

Saint George's Shopping Centre

Costa Coffee

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Revolution bars offer free wifi, they require you to register some of your details (name, address, phone number, etc)

Morty_007

Lost2 wrote: »

Preston

Saint George's Shopping Centre

Costa Coffee

Any conditions for costa coffee? do you have to register a card or anything or do they just give you the password?

Same questons for St George's?

radio-jo

The thing about McDonalds and Pret's free wifi is that they use The Cloud or BT Openzone. If, like me, you have a phone (i have an iphone) which gave you 1 year's free wifi via The Cloud and BT Openzone, after that 1 year expires you can no longer login to these wifi networks, even in venues like McDonalds and Pret where they are supposed to be FREE to ALL CUSTOMERS!

I assume this is because they have a database of MAC addresses (unique phone identifier) of phones who have had the 1 year free offer via their mobile network, but I have no idea how I can get my phone removed from it.