How to get free wireless at any airport
So I'm sitting in the US Airways (I know I know) terminal at LaGuardia right now. And guess how I got online? Yep, I paid $7.95 to a company called Boingo, which supplies the wireless connection.But now that I'm online, I just found a great little trick that lets you save that $7.95 and get free wireless Internet at any airport. Here's all you have to do:
Add "?.jpg" after any website address. That's it. For instance, if you want Google, just type in www.google.com/search?.jpg/.
Enjoy!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jan 26th 2008 @ 9:01AM
Rob Brooks-Bilson said...
Hi Jerry,
This doesn't work at every airport - only at Atlanta, and even then, many readers of the original post report that it's no longer working there.
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Jan 26th 2008 @ 11:55AM
Joshua Berman said...
You can also go sit on the floor outside the President's club (or other airlines first-class lounges) and poach the rich people's WiFi -- this works great in Houston.
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Jan 28th 2008 @ 8:22AM
Willy said...
I do backflips down the concourse at each airport I travel through when I discover they have complimentary WiFi. I *get* why we should let the free market provide it, but wireless Internet is an exception that every airport should offer.
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