Shops + stores which provide Free Wifi Wireless broadband ? (like USA? )

kwikbreaks

There are loads of FON APs. The real issue with them is poor range as they are just produced by home routers with no outdoor antenna. Plus a lot of people don't even realise/remember that they are providing a hotspot and may get freaked out if they see you skulking around by their front gate.

I'm not a BT customer but have been running a Fon router for some years which provides a hotspot - I put up an outside antenna to be friendly too but virtually nobody ever uses it. Running the router gives me access to any other Fon hotspot I care to use.

JohnB47

Cafe Nero provides free wifi.

molerat

Stagecoach, quite handy when you are following one, not the car driver though obviously

harrys_nan

Debenhams have 02 for free

Kernel_Sanders

ballyblack wrote: »

Tesco does. Just login once using your clubcard number

I tried it again in Tesco this evening. My phone settings
said I was connected to Tesco but browser said I wasn't.

kwikbreaks

I installed this O2 WiFi app for Android which after your first setting up will automatically connect anywhere there is a free O2 WiFi - certainly many if not all Maccy D's use O2.

Agrajag

I tried it again in Tesco this evening. My phone settings
said I was connected to Tesco but browser said I wasn't.

You have to open a browser every time you go into store. The tesco web page opens, and you click continue - then you are fully connected, and then all your non-web page connections will work.

Many public access sites work like this.

Neil49

Add Costa Coffee, Pizza Express and WH Smiths to the list.

esuhl

Agrajag wrote: »

You have to open a browser every time you go into store. The tesco web page opens, and you click continue - then you are fully connected, and then all your non-web page connections will work.

Many public access sites work like this.

I've tried to access "public" wi-fi a few times without much success (e.g. in Wetherspoons). I can just about browse web pages (after disabling various security add-ons), but can't get any other internet traffic flowing... :-/

Also, the connections I've used are incredibly slow and unreliable. I keep having to re-connect when the signal drops off every minute or so and it takes ages to load even a BBC News page... I guess watching YouTube would be out of the question!

mttylad

I like to sit in starbucks and use the wifi.