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Looking for running routes that pass public Wi-Fi hotspots

Off Topic by brusselsdzire1 23 replies 3.8K views
#11
haroldgsm said:
The segment cpanelliw780 mentioned will be deleted within six months after an incident.

Haha nah its been up since 2019, people run it with strollers and everything. The wifi at bean there done that is solid though, its xfinitywifi not the shop's own so good luck suing them for that.

8 #12
cpanelliw780 said:
Xfinitywifi not the shop's own

Comcast's hotspot program. Residential gateway broadcasting a secondary SSID. I have seen the terms of service disputes on that going back to 2014. Still not public infrastructure, still not immune. Somebody will trip on a curb looking at their phone, and the city will yank the permit. Mark my words.

IPv4, IRC, and irssi — fight me
8 #13

So I just look for the xfinitywifi name then? Is that free or do I need an account? Sorry again for basic questions, I just got my first smartphone last month.

#14
nate_pad said:
Is that free or do I need an account?

Free if you're already an Xfinity customer, otherwise you can buy passes. But in the UK we mostly have BT Wi-fi and The Cloud at pubs and cafes. Different ecosystem entirely. I just use my giffgaff data, it's cheap enough that I don't bother hunting for hotspots.

#15
Space25 said:
Giffgaff data, it's cheap enough

Same here on Three. £8 for unlimited basically. The whole thread feels like a solved problem to me, but I suppose if you're hitting Roam Like At Home caps from Belgium it's different.

#16

I wrote a Rust CLI that scrapes WiGLE for hotspots along a GPX route. Not publishing it because WiGLE's ToS is ambiguous and I don't want the drama. But the approach works. Just saying.

#17
GroupStockholm said:
Scrapes WiGLE for hotspots along a GPX route

Of course you did. Does it also rewrite the GPX parser three times because the first two borrow checker victories felt hollow?

#18
Berlin1 said:
Rewrite the GPX parser three times

Twice, actually. The third rewrite was for the KML exporter and that one stuck.

1 #19
Dragon7 said:
Þetta reddast

Icelandic? Norwegian? Either way every thread this guy enters turns into systemd discourse. It's like a law of nature.

grabs popcorn, checks /r/drama
#20
blubmedia said:
Which Garmin model?

Fenix 6 Pro. Solar. I sync through USB-C at home like a civilised person. No wifi needed. No cloud dependency. The watch records, the cable transfers, my filesystem owns the data.

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