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Free Wi-Fi Too Good to be True
Yes, we have free access to Wi-Fi in the downtown core, but the same access-to-the-masses mentality does not exist at the airport. This is the pop up that appears when you open your web browser within range of the Bell Wi-Fi system at Pearson International Airport. It's their choice of words that pisses me off.
Your salt-in-the-wounds options? $9.99 for the day (even though you likely only need 10 minutes to check your email) or $15.99 for the week (so you save $4.00 when you check your email when you return?). Highway Airway robbery. The nerve! End rant.
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That being said, whoever does Bell's copywriting needs to be fired! That is a horrible choice of words!
Kind of sad when even Via rail offers Wifi on-board.
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Somebody should sue idiots at Bell for slander.
i haven't hit an airport yet that didn't charge an arm and a leg for wifi. when travelling in a GON (group of nerds) we usually shell out for one person and then re-share it amongst the group via a bridge.
i'm annoyed that Bell isn't using their hotspot service at pearson. at least then if you bought a day pass you could use it at another hotspot-enabled location like a starbucks in vancouver.
that being said: as long as we keep paying for it, they'll keep charging for it. we could all curb our internet addictions enroute and they might feel the pressure to change their terms of service or prices.
Bell does have their hotspot in the Air Canada lounge and it's free for lounge members, unfortunately unlike the old terminal there is nowhere outside the lounge but close enough where you can catch a free ride.
They are NOT trying to dis free WiFi, they are trying (poorly) to warn about a hack that seems to be going around, there is some sort of worm or trojan that grabs the victim's WiFi card and sets it to adhoc mode with "Free WiFi" as the ssid, if you do connect to this it will attempt to pass the worm along.
When I was flying out last week, that network was gone though.
Really they should just be telling their patrons to use the firewall that is built into most modern computer OS. Cheesy, but not totally incorrect. Still cheesy.