Wifi on the road May 2, 2006
Posted by evilzenscientist in : travel , 1 comment so far
I’ve blogged before about the various airports offering ‘free WiFi’ to customers - this is generally a great service.
Chicago O’Hare is rolling out a new wireless service in the public concourses - run by Concourse Communications this is billed as ‘Wifi Zone - A Concourse Network’ - and the all important word ‘BETA’.
I’m in the United terminal; near gate C5 waiting to wait list to an earlier flight to Salt Lake City.
I’ve got ‘good’ signal on my wireless NIC; but the service sucks. It’s slow, unreliable, disconnects - I get better throughput via GPRS on my cellphone.
City of Chicago - while this is beta make sure it’s free! Concourse Communications - fix it - this is truly the worst public WiFi I’ve had to use in a long long time. I can’t believe people pay money for this. I’m certainly asking for a refund.
[As an aside - I've not had problems with T-Mobile Hotspots in the United Red Carpet Club lounges]
