Free WiFi in Bangkok

[bigmick22]

need to save the sheckels for the shopping?

[dummy_plug]

Meh...wifi is one thing I won't pay for. In the US, at hotspots in places like Starbucks and airports they charge a ridiculous fee of $10 for the day. Like I'd pay that and sit around for more than an hour or two to browse the net. And you know, it's a tough economy, so I gotta pull back any way I can!

[joseph1]

a couple palces that I go to for free internet connections are on soi 4. The british bar just past Nana on the right has great speed, and the Big mango bar also has a good free connection. The mango bar is down an alley off soi 4. Go to the 7-11 just pasy Nana hotel, stand in front of the 7-11 and look across the street. It is down that small alley about 50 feet on the left. By the way....great people own it and thet have fantastic burgers and food. All the staff are fun and not pushy at all.

[BAM]

2 years ago from my hotel room at JW Marriott I was able to pull in all of these... many were free. I'm sure there is twice as many now!

[BAM]

[great_shape]

holy shit, you would think hotels would have secure access for guests.

[BAM]

(great_shape @ Dec. 01 2008,11:13) holy shit, you would think hotels would have secure access for guests.

Yes you would think so but they never do because it would be too complicated for them to deal with. So they run the wifi in the clear (unencrypted) but pass the Access Point through a Proxy server to just authenticate you as a paid guest... however your traffic is in the clear and can be sniffed out by anyone... also it leaves you open for a "Man in the Middle" attack where the hacker using his own computer will first connect to the hotels Access Point then he will set up his own computer to send out a SSID advertising it's self as an open Access Point... anyone that find it and connects will have all there online actions recoded by the hackers computer. The ONLY way to protect yourself from this and many other attacks is to use a VPN server that encrypts all your traffic so no matter where you are or what Access Point you use you'll never have to worry.