On Jan 10, 5:30*pm, "Steve Dulieu"
wrote:

"Robin Cox" *wrote:

"Steve Dulieu" wrote in message

The airports do have it but you're almost certainly going to have
to pay unless travelling business class and then it is free in the
lounges.

There are a number of Wetherspoons bars at LHR, both landside
and airside. Don't they offer free wi-fi?

Surprisingly it appears not. I've just checked the Wetherspoons website and
none of the Heathrow outlets list Wi-Fi as one of the facilities available
to customers. Mind you that ain't saying much, according to the website the
Kings Ford in Chingford has Wi-Fi and sure enough any wireless equipped
device can see a "The Cloud" provided connection. Sadly it's utterly
impossible to connect to it. Reporting the matter to any sort of management
in the pub gets you a shrug and a "yeah, it's a bit **** isn't it". Given
I've been reporting the problem since October I don't think it's going to be
fixed anytime soon.

Contact head office?

Re Wetherspoons, wifi and Heathrow - I'd guess that the BAA tenancy
agreement prevents tenants from offering publicly accessible wifi, as
it'd encroach on the paid-for product offered by BAA (through their
sillyly named provider, Boingo) - see:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/Heathrow-wifi

(What kind of absurd web server or CMS do BAA use - the URLs are just
ridiculous, mind you Network Rail's system is just as 'URL cite
unfriendly' too.)