Stations with Wi-Fi

[City of Miami]

Add Springfield Ill to the list. Galesburg, I think not as of the first of this year at least. FWIW, I was in an airport recently that did NOT have free wifi, at least that I could find with my tablet. I think it was ATL

 

[CHamilton]

In related news:

New York City Subway Stations Just Got Free Wi-Fi and Cell Service

 

[leemell]

Many businesses purchase or lease internet equipment designed for home use and then expect it to run 24/7 without locking up or overheating.

My home router runs 24/7.

Does anyone actually turn their home router off when they go to work/school, or go to bed at night?

I turn mine off once a week and reboot. I have found that the router will go 2-3 weeks before it screws up, so once a week works fine.

 

[leemell]

You can add Van Nuys station to that soon as they finish up the refurbishment there.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Add Springfield Ill to the list. Galesburg, I think not as of the first of this year at least. FWIW, I was in an airport recently that did NOT have free wifi, at least that I could find with my tablet. I think it was ATL

I've flown through a lot of airports from tiny to enormous and most did not have free internet. Even those that few that did often required you to create an account and obtain a code at a specific information desk. If the desk was located in the area before security you had to leave the secure area to get it and then submit to being scanned all over again. Once you had the code you only received a specific amount of time (between fifteen minutes and an hour depending on the airport) before it kicked you off again. Some airports only provided hardwired internet connections or made you use their own generic access terminals. I wish most airports provided free internet, but that hasn't been the case in my experience.

 

[SubwayNut]

I also believe Albany (NY) has free wifi too - but I'm not certain about that.

Last I knew, they did not. A cafe offered some, but you had to be in the cafe and have purchased something I believe.

I can clarify, I was in Albany 3 weeks ago on the long two hour Boston section Lake Shore Limited layover going from Springfield to Syracuse, discovered there is a decent, hole in the wall pizza place near the station too! The cafe has wifi but its unprotected (no code required that is given to you when you purchase something). You have to sit in the area by the cafe though, the signal doesn't reach to the other waiting areas or to the overpass to the platforms (although if a train is idling in the station you can probably get a connection using AmtrakConnect).

On that AmtrakConnect subject from nearby trains I had a very amusing time on this same trip waiting for the Lake Shore in Springfield. I was sitting on one of the platform-side benches outside the Springfield Amtrak station and updated my blog using AmtrakConnect from an idling Shuttle train sitting in the station.

 

[Shanghai]

CUS has it in the Metropolitan Lounge....

Yes, the WiFi is installed there but most of the time it isn't working!!

 

[Shanghai]

Many businesses purchase or lease internet equipment designed for home use and then expect it to run 24/7 without locking up or overheating.

My home router runs 24/7.

Does anyone actually turn their home router off when they go to work/school, or go to bed at night?

My router is powered on all of the time. I do reboot it once a month.

 

[Devil's Advocate]

Home routers have a lot less to do at home. They have a lot fewer connections to worry about, and a lot less logging to track. Home routers with a handful of unique devices to manage will naturally take longer to run out of memory or overheat because there's a lot less going on. They're doing what they were designed to do. However, if you unlock and broadcast and advertise your home router's connection in an area with heavy traffic and lots of loitering it will begin to suffer from more severe sluggishness more often. That's why rebooting once a month or even once a week is unlikely to be often enough to avoid sluggish response in a high traffic area.