Free Access to Eircom Wifi

A FEW YEARS AGO, I could sit aboard buses throughout Dublin and connect for free by using Eircom hotspots. From tomorrow, Eircom customers will have free access to 1100 wireless hotspots as the company opens up access to its wifi services.

As an Eircom subscriber, I like being able to sign up for free wifi broadband. I can use it at several places in Clonmel and through a payphone at Tipperary Institute. After I signed up online, I received an email two working days later along with an eircom wireless broadband hotspot subscription username and password. Somehow that UN and PW got passed along by some of my Jaiku friends. Here is what they are doing with my credentials:

1. When inside an eircom hotspot, they activate their Wi-Fi enabled laptop or smart phone. Tipperary Institute students must do more than that. They must reset some network adapters that affect their MAC addresses.

2. Set the SSID (network name) to eircom.

3. Open a web browser and on eircom's welcome page, enter the username and password. Then enjoy the free ride.

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Eircom hotspot customer support: 1890 252 049 from 0800 to 2200, seven days a week.

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