http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "FREE wifi is to be rolled out across Edinburgh city centre from this summer" en Thu, 21 May 2026 23:47:32 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16405#post-220298 Wed, 18 May 2016 11:02:39 +0000 Stephan Matthiesen 220298@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Many roads already have free Wifi. On Morningside Rd, there are buses every few dozen metres, so you login into the bus wifi from any cafe and get a good half hour before the bus moves on. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16405#post-220297 Wed, 18 May 2016 10:40:27 +0000 Coxy 220297@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>FYI:</p> <p><a href="https://www.wifipineapple.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wifipineapple.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://blog.privatewifi.com/a-hacker%E2%80%99s-toolkit/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.privatewifi.com/a-hacker%E2%80%99s-toolkit/</a></p> <p>It's not hard to intercept public wifi. I would recommend that you make sure you don't let your smartphone connect automatically to previouisly used unsecure public hotspots. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16405#post-220276 Tue, 17 May 2016 21:47:58 +0000 neddie 220276@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>has been granted exclusive use of city street furniture and properties</em></p> <p>Hmmm. What does that mean?</p> <p>That like the bus shelter debacle, they can plaster whatever street furniture they like with interweb apparatus? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16405#post-220270 Tue, 17 May 2016 20:06:29 +0000 acsimpson 220270@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Regardless of the bandwidth available the council should get some interesting data about where people go and what route they take. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16405#post-220260 Tue, 17 May 2016 18:30:07 +0000 Charlethepar 220260@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just hope it doesn't lead to even more peds shuffling about with their eyes on the magic 3 inches of LCD rather than their surroundings. I was nearly taken out by one such ped today, walking on the cycle side of a meadows track and then suddenly changing direction without any reference to the real world. "Yarg, sorry," I shouted as I swerved past, which was perhaps better than he deserved. Then a more genuine "sorry" to the cyclist coming the other way who had to slow down as a result of my forced swerve. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16405#post-220257 Tue, 17 May 2016 18:08:55 +0000 Blueth 220257@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can't (well I have never been able to) read anything worthwhile on a device used on a bus from Corstorphine to town due to the constant severe buffeting as the wheels go through the potholes at the road edge - it's even worse than cycling that stretch, so bandwidth is irrelevant to me in that instance.</p> <p>I imagine it's the same on most routes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16405#post-220240 Tue, 17 May 2016 16:08:28 +0000 Snowy 220240@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hope it's better than the free wifi on the trams and buses, which have all the bandwidth of a drinking straw. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16405#post-220188 Tue, 17 May 2016 13:09:26 +0000 chdot 220188@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>The council has signed a 10-year contract with intechnologyWiFi, which has been granted exclusive use of city street furniture and properties.</p> <p>Councillor Frank Ross, SNP leader at the council, said: “This is great news as everyone will be able to get free access to the latest information on their favourite apps and websites while they are out and about.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/city-centre/edinburgh-city-centre-to-get-free-wifi-this-summer-1-4130189" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/city-centre/edinburgh-city-centre-to-get-free-wifi-this-summer-1-4130189</a> </p>