I blog by grace of something I hardly expected to find: a free open wi-fi hot spot in London. Way back in (it says 1969, but it was actually) 2002, I had a ball discovering many free wi-fi hot spots in London, got to make many new friends, and enjoy, for a brief shining year or two, the grace of public wi-fi by countless distributed private means.
Somewhere betwen then and now that ended. So now I’m sitting with newer friends where Blackfriars Bridge crosses the Thames, on Riverside Walk (or is it Southwalk?) in the Spring. Except it’s Autumn.
It’s been beautiful all week here. Guess I brought nice weather with me.
[Later…] Now it’s the next day. I’m at Heathrow, Terminal One, at the Star Alliance lounge, where the wi-fi is “completely down,” they tell me. Fortunately I have a BT OpenZone account, and I can get a signal from BTOZ just inside the door of the lounge, where my bum is parked now.
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yeah, those were the days! Unfortunately, now, somebody convinced the access point manufacturers that locked-down APs should be the default.
British Library – free to all although you DO have to register
St Pancras Station – just next door
Never known to go down – but I only use them weekly not every day.