Step By Step: How To Get Free WiFi at Cheap Hotels
I was recently talking to someone at work about how you can get around the wall of cheapness at those hotels that make you pay $30 dollars for wireless internet access. After that conversation I thought it would be a good idea to write up a tutorial, fully explaining the process. Like most of my ideas though, I forgot about it. However, after a looking around at some old bookmarks I stumbled across the fact that Ray Haque had done the work for me and had posted a walk-through for getting free access to hotel WiFi entitled: “Never Pay For WiFi Again” This tutorial won’t be for you Computer Science graduates out there, but for those somewhat computer literate and able to follow instructions this should be right up your alley and make your friends start to call you “Zero Cool” Here’s a sample…
Sure, I have been stuck in a hotel for a few days with absolutely nothing to do. Left alone with my thoughts, one HBO that only plays s*** , and a hotel that charges for WiFi access … I have resorted to network violence. Even as I record this post I am starving some poor victim of bandwidth and leaving a trail of utter confusion. Allow me to explain, and before long YOU TOO can steal all of your paid WiFi access.
What you need:
* A WiFi card and an OS that allows you to change the MAC address
* A hotel that charges upwards of $200 a night, and still wants 10 bucks more for WiFi.
Like all handsome, smart and never smelly people, Ray is a “Mac Guy” so his tutorial is OS X centric, but for you Windows folks just download any of the LiveCD versions of Linux and follow the steps he gives and you should be ripping off hotels in no time.
Thanks Ray! Your blog has earned a stay of execution in my bookmark list.