Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless 230
An anonymous reader writes "The City of Baltimore has made free wireless internet available in the Inner Harbor in hopes of bringing in more tourists and business conventions. According to this article on Sunspot Internet service will be available free of charge to portable computers from the Baltimore Science Center to the World Trade Center along the touristy waterfront. Need to check your e-mail when sailing the Chesapeake Bay? Just dock at the Rusty Scupper and whip out your laptop."
Also good for otaku (Score:2, Informative)
I mean, if you're going to geek, geek out fully, right?
Travel Advisory (Score:4, Informative)
At most garages, it costs more than $10 to park, the restaurants in that area serve tasty but expensive food, moderately overpriced shopping stores surround consumers, and random Orioles fans, despondent over the team's performance, may accost you at any time in that area.
You would be better served going to Fells Point and playing video poker at any one of the dozens of bars.
Re:World Trade Center? (Score:3, Informative)
Right now it's closed for a month because of flooding caused by the hurricane.
Re:Baltimore? Tourism? Muahaha.. (Score:4, Informative)
Baltimore has a great aquarium, the (currently closed) B&O railroad museum, Fort McHenry, the science museum, and on the waterfront a lot of shopping and restaurants. I've also gone to Baltimore to see shows like Penn & Teller. There are plenty of things to do in Baltimore.
So, I would go to Baltimore before the beach. Even without free wireless, which is irrelevant since I don't have a wireless network card and my laptop is too old to run one.
(And I love beaches, too.)
--RJ
Re:Free internet (Score:1, Informative)
Even if you pay the $40/month, you have to pay a $25 "early termination" fee if you want to quit after less than a year. There's more fine print here than a typical MS EULA.
They also $10 for unlimited access for 24 hours, or 10 cents/minute on a by the minute plan. Even that has a catch though...60 minute minimum charge, so you're out $6 as soon as you check your email.
My broadband account is only $40/month for month by month service and I certainly spend a lot more time at home than at a coffee shop. For how little it costs to set up a hot spot, starbucks could do it for free for the people paying for those coffees.
As I said, I don't have a wifi card for my notebook, but if they'd offer a reasonable service, I'd buy the card just to use the service and I'd go to starbucks everyday. Instead I go out of my way to go to Tully's or SBC (the other major chains in Seattle) just because of starbucks wifi.
Hmm (Score:3, Informative)
I like the idea of free wi-fi. Go to (Hooters|HRC|whatever) grab some food, find a nice spot to sit down outside, and surf the web while enjoying a decent lunch. Combine that with a few fun attractions (boat tours, science center, ESPN Zone), and it has the makings of a fun day out that doesn't require you to give up all contact with the outside world.
Why you're bringing the laptop on a fun day out is beyond me, though... sometimes, we should just unplug, I think. Maybe it's for PDAs with wi-fi (and lots of batteries)?
-Erwos
Re:I've got it in my town... (Score:3, Informative)