Today I’m going to teach you how to get around number of user restrictions for Wifi. This is one of the most arbitrary and annoying restrictions that hotels/airlines have on their networks.
For example, SQ’s new aircraft come equipped with T-Mobile’s awesome time-based wifi (whole flight $21.95 as opposed to the horrible OnAir volume based wifi where 50MB costs $19.99), but limits you to one device per login.ย Other hotels may only allow 1 or 2 devices per login code and charge beyond that. But if you and your partner have 3 devices each (phone, tablet, laptop), that might be a problem.
Although there are hardware solutions to this which allow you to turn one Wifi connected device into a hotspot, we don’t like spending money. So today I’m going to tell you about several nifty apps that allow you to turn your laptop into a Wifi hotspot, effectively sharing your connection with your other devices while only using 1 login
- mhotspotย (download link on main page appears busted so go here)
- virtualrouter
- mypublicwifi
Just install it, follow the instructions and viola- your own laptop becomes a font of Wifi goodness! For longer instructions, see here
I know we said we didn’t want to pay, but if you’re hungry for alternatives you can try these also. Apparently they’re a bit more reliable than the free ones (which you may need to restart every now and then)
- connectifymeย (starts at $35)
Wasn’t that easy?
cover photo by davejimison
not connected to this article. but I basically just picked your latest post to “msg” you.
basically, I’m currently revamping my credit cards “collection” and was staring at DBS site. (yes yes. I’m slow on the bandwagon for altitude and the woman’s card. lol..)
so I went to your page on “latest bonus”. I noticed you got the visa signature slightly wrong. its minimum $1000 per month for first two months to get bonus 8000 miles.
but still.. thanks for the wonderful resources and good reads! ๐
thanks. This was recently changed, as Mark from the shutterwhale points out- http://theshutterwhale.com/blog/2016/2/3/requirement-changes-to-8000-bonus-miles-with-dbs-altitude-card
have updated it on my side
cool.. anyway. off topic here (it isn’t about wifi)..
I’m having a little trouble. DBS altitude. amex or visa? or both? I reckon amex coz the bonus seems easier to attain. but visa for more widespread acceptance?
both. depends on the sign up bonus really, but you’d be hard pressed to find a better sign up bonus than the one currently on for the altitude amex
off topic as well. i applied for the Visa in early Jan when the promo is to spend $500 per month but they only approved my card today. Called the bank and they said I have to spend $1000 as they take the current promotion upon approval instead of application. Is this the common practice?
unfortunately, yes. it’s a bit sneaky for them to do that though.
@aaron
cool.. I signed up for both. i totally agree. altitude amex sign up bonus is good. and i already have mapped out my plans for what to sign on that card! in all likely hood, i shld be able to hit the visa signature bonus too. but my main draw for the visa signature is the card privileges.. whats your take on that?
you mean the privileges coming from holding a visa signature card eg visa signature hotels collection? but anyone can get that with any visa signature card, doesnt have to be with altitude. i generally like the altitude cards for paypal spending because they award 2 miles per $1 on forex paypal spend (uob classifies it as payments in foreign currency done through SG based payment processor and only awards 1.4)