Comments on: Travelers shocked by high Wi-Fi prices in Europe http://www.muniwireless.com/2009/02/05/high-prices-wifi-europe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=high-prices-wifi-europe Citywide WiFi, smart grid, enterprise wireless, public safety, mobile apps Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jim http://www.muniwireless.com/2009/02/05/high-prices-wifi-europe/#comment-41749 jim Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:22:40 +0000 http://www.muniwireless.com/?p=10010#comment-41749 hey have you guys heard of mificlub? it's pretty cool. portable wifi hotspots that's pretty affordable. mificlub.com hey have you guys heard of mificlub? it’s pretty cool. portable wifi hotspots that’s pretty affordable.

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]]> By: Carnager http://www.muniwireless.com/2009/02/05/high-prices-wifi-europe/#comment-37955 Carnager Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:05:36 +0000 http://www.muniwireless.com/?p=10010#comment-37955 In The Netherlands, there are indeed many outlets offering free WiFi on their own. Coffee Company offers one hour of free WiFi with each cashregister-ticket, yet they don't offer this in the franchised locations (e.g. Dam Square, Amsterdam), which only has a closed private network for employees. Starbucks, known for their WiFi service, is only located on Schiphol Airport so far, and doesn't offer WiFi. McDonalds has paid WiFi. The HaJe restaurants have unlimited free WiFi at decent speeds. In Switzerland, you can get a free half hour of internet at McDonalds, offered by Orange. It's slow and sometimes it doesn't even work, you'll feel like using a GPRS internet connection, but heck, beggers can't be choosers.. ;) Starbucks offers a free half hour with each purchase, yet they usually give 2 hours of half an hour each when it's not too busy; you don't even need to ask for the extra voucher. Service by Swisscom and, as with McDonalds, very slow. I compared it by buying some access which is also a possibility to see if free connections were capped and paid connections weren't, yet came to the conclusion the speeds were exactly the same. No need to spend an extra buck on that, then... Don't really have experience in other countries except for using open WiFi spots. A general place to get cheap WiFi is a Fon hotspot, of which many thousands are all over the world. It can even be free if you agree to share your own internet-connection at home with a propriety Fon router (Fonera) which should get you many legal opportunities abroad to use WiFi. In The Netherlands, there are indeed many outlets offering free WiFi on their own.
Coffee Company offers one hour of free WiFi with each cashregister-ticket, yet they don’t offer this in the franchised locations (e.g. Dam Square, Amsterdam), which only has a closed private network for employees.
Starbucks, known for their WiFi service, is only located on Schiphol Airport so far, and doesn’t offer WiFi.
McDonalds has paid WiFi.
The HaJe restaurants have unlimited free WiFi at decent speeds.

In Switzerland, you can get a free half hour of internet at McDonalds, offered by Orange. It’s slow and sometimes it doesn’t even work, you’ll feel like using a GPRS internet connection, but heck, beggers can’t be choosers.. ;)
Starbucks offers a free half hour with each purchase, yet they usually give 2 hours of half an hour each when it’s not too busy; you don’t even need to ask for the extra voucher. Service by Swisscom and, as with McDonalds, very slow. I compared it by buying some access which is also a possibility to see if free connections were capped and paid connections weren’t, yet came to the conclusion the speeds were exactly the same. No need to spend an extra buck on that, then…

Don’t really have experience in other countries except for using open WiFi spots.

A general place to get cheap WiFi is a Fon hotspot, of which many thousands are all over the world. It can even be free if you agree to share your own internet-connection at home with a propriety Fon router (Fonera) which should get you many legal opportunities abroad to use WiFi.

]]> By: joris http://www.muniwireless.com/2009/02/05/high-prices-wifi-europe/#comment-37714 joris Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:33:30 +0000 http://www.muniwireless.com/?p=10010#comment-37714 You're right, CoffeeCompany does indeed offer free Wi-Fi to their customers. But they use the Wi-Fi menu as a way to advertise their food and drink menu! http://www.epica-awards.com/pages/results/2008/finalists/print/images/28_04411_CC_WiFi_Headlines-1.jpg You’re right, CoffeeCompany does indeed offer free Wi-Fi to their customers.

But they use the Wi-Fi menu as a way to advertise their food and drink menu!

http://www.epica-awards.com/pages/results/2008/finalists/print/images/28_04411_CC_WiFi_Headlines-1.jpg

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