How dare it be free!!

Tech Tip of the Day: Places with guest wireless/free wifi are becoming increasingly common. While these are great for customers, they are generally not essential technology for a business(exceptions being places like hotels that tout that as a primary amenity.) 

As secondary technology, they may not work, and will often times not be very fast when they do work. Businesses do incur the cost of bandwidth, and just like your home internet, the faster the speed, the more it costs. It might be part of their bundled bandwidth, but they are not going to dedicate a lot of network traffic to your facebook/youtube/torrent/online gaming experience.

It's a free service, if it's not working to your satisfaction feel free to put up your phone, turn off your ipad or laptop and interact with the humans around you.