hell yeah, let's celebrate free internet in the Frankfurt airport

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I'm sitting a wireless LAN zone in the Frankfurt airport. It claimed that I'd have to enter credit card info to pay for this, but I connected without a problem and never had to enter a thing. Am I stealing? Who cares! My flight doesn't leave for another three hours and now I've got something to do.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Welcome to my town. I think the wireless LAN at FRA is going to be free this month in an attempt to get people hooked on it.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha, that would explain this. T-Mobile will make a killing on this. What else is there to do in an airport? If I'm going to have my wallet gouged, I'd rather do it on the internet than while shopping. There's just something mondo cool about sitting in some random chair, pulling a computer out of my bag, and connecting to my computer in Toronto two minutes later.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Frankfurt airport is cool as I recall....it seemed very large and it has the coolest trains. I had to wait there for about 2 hours en route from London to Amman, Jordan (I think both halves of the flight were with Lufthansa, but I had to change at Frankfurt). I wish I'd had a computer with me as for something to do as I couldn't even buy a coffee as I had no appropriate currency on me (only had £ and JD).

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it's big. I've never taken the trains, though. This is my second time in this airport, and it's pretty good as airports go. European airports are so much nicer than North American airports, it's not even funny.

Last time I was here, I had to walk for literally 25-30 minutes to get to my connecting gate. We had to walk down a tunnel, to an elevator, through a main hall, down an escalator, down another tunnel ... and it just went on like this forever. It felt like that scene in This is Spinal Tap when they couldn't find the stage, except that I wasn't lost.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

frankfurt airport has a casino in it!! and therefore is class. although of course you can now just gamble online instead.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

free internet at laguardia, too.

but i'm still bored.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Wreak havoc. (And your CDR is ready to be mailed!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Some trains have internet here. Not free. And slow. But still.

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

On the way back through Frankfurt the next month (April), it was no longer free (as Colin had predicted). I think the way it works now is you're supposed to enter an account number and it gets billed to your mobile/internet account. This is the first I've heard of it in a North American airport (although I haven't been to many NA airports lately).

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you, intel.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

LGB, ONT, and JFK have free wi-fi also (at least in the JetBlue areas)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Where are you going, lauren?

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

cleveland to see family/dog for a few weeks prior to LONDON.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I have spent many hours in frankfurt airport - meaning i've got drunk there many times - (i love the out of time quality of airports that somehow allows ppl to feel comfortable getting sloshed at 8 am) but that means i pick up random facts out of boredom such as the fact that 16 million ppl travlled through there last year.

my all time favorite airport internet experience so far (tho not free) was just under 10 bucks for internet cafe, shower facilities with everything supplied, plus unlimited free booze!! Jo'burg airport (where i posted drunkenly from to ilx) rules.

― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven years pass...

Still free Internets lol

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 10 March 2016 06:02 (ten years ago)

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