I'm sorry Zwixxx. I feel your pain! Even though it's only a couple of quid, it still makes you go
"Blaaaargh!"
Originally Posted by Tony_Daniels:
“Places that offer free wifi that's crap wifi. No wifi is better than crap wifi because no wifi means I can save time and not bother connecting to wifi only to sit there struggling to get one single basic page to load on my phone.
If i know there isn't wifi, I'll keep my phone in my pocket, drink my coffee and be satisfied with it.
Advertise wifi? I'm human, I'll try to get online, won't be able to because it's crap and slow and my whole experience will be ruined and I won't be coming back to your establishment because I'll remember it as the place with crap wifi.”
Yup. Definitely. I wish it wasn't so important in life at times, but it is. I agree with the idea of "if you don't advertise it - fine!". Like my local coffee shop - it has a sign saying
"We have no WiFi - talk to each other instead" which I like (there's only 3 wifi hotspots in town so can't connect to those either OR 2/3/4G

).
I find it so annoying that the ferry service from the mainland advertises free wifi. Yeah, in the
terminal (terminally SLOW that is...). On board it's not even worth connecting. I recall on my way home from Lerwick last autumn a woman was shaking her iPad complaining that it was defective because it said she had no net and her phone had no 3g. That's just life here love *missingrollyeyes*
I've spent
6 hours trying to load my email on more than one occasion. I'd have been better off training dolphins to carry mail towards my cabin. I know it's not an absolute necessity on board (pretty much everyone on the island knows to check the ferry / bus / radio page for anything relating to folk on board - or if the damn thing has sunk), but if I have a 6 hour journey ahead of me, I want to catch up with work damnit! Oh well. Gives me time to sit in the bar drinking beer and reading books I suppose.
Sorry this one's been a bit of a ramble, but when you don't have proper 2G nevermind 3G available, WiFi can seem like a saviour at times