How to get Free Wifi in Airports
A few weeks back I came across an article on how to get free wifi at airports. Knowing I was going to be flying soon I bookmarked it. 
Smart idea, as luck would have it, this little travel hack seemed to work at the Regina Airport. As many of you know, Airport Wifi will cost you an arm and a leg, and is usually not worth it. However, if you are traveling with a laptop, then you might want to to give this a try. As you may know, when you’re connected to airport wifi, your browser (IE, Firefox, Safari, etc) will display a login page / payment page for whichever company is providing the wireless. In my case it was “Boingo”, telling me to login to my account or insert some credit card details in order to be charged a horendous amount for a few minutes of surfing. No matter how many pages you try going to, Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, you name it, it redirects you to “their” page. According to the hack if you add ?.jpeg at the end of any URL you may be able to bypass the wifi’s security. So rather than just typing “www.google.com”, one would try “www.google.com/search?.jpeg“. Tada! Internet!
I understand some of you may see this as stealing. I however don’t. So give it a go, you know you want to…
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Thanks for the info. We are flying on Wednesday to Alberta and will give it a try.
@Dave & Deb – Best of luck getting it to work. There are apparently a few other ways to score free internet. Including using proxies, however, I think that involves a lot of work. Safe flight!
This is awesome advice — now that we’ve picked up a netbook, we’ll have a chance to give it a go!
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Tried it in Pearson in Toronto, didn’t work. Bummer.
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Pearson, eh! I will wring free wifi out of your terminals yet!
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@Dave & Deb – Yea I had my older brother give it a go in Winnipeg, no luck there either. I’ve poked around with a few free programs that will create proxies and allow you in that way. Seems like a lot of work though just for free wifi. I’ve read somewhere that just calling the toll free number is sometimes enough to get a free 15 minute trial. Which in emergencies might be all you need. Wifi should be free at public places that large.
@Daniel – Haha, best of luck wringing free wifi out of terminals, remember to wring with your knees, not with your back.
Thats a great trick. I will definitely try it, hope it works.
In the original article, the author also mentioned an easier way to automatically add .jpg to the links. With such a script it would be a crime not to use the free wifi.
“I downloaded Greasemonkey and wrote a 4 line script that would add ?.jpg to every link in a document.”
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Nice tip, but i’m usually in too much of a rush at airports!
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I know that feeling. I’ve been getting better lately though. I aim for at least an hour and a half before the flight. Had a few too many close calls to keep that up.