How to get wifi free at airport???

Traveling would probably be better for most people if all airports offered free wifi, but they don’t.

For those that don’t, or those that have time restrictions on their free wifi, what’s a traveler to do?

An unhelpful answer is to get lounge access, since I can’t think of a lounge that doesn’t offer free wifi to its guests. But you generally have to pay for lounge access somehow, be it through your booked fare class, a one-time pass, being someone’s guest (friendship isn’t free), a credit card, etc.

But is there a way to get access to the wifi without getting access to the lounge? Generally, I believe the answer to this question is yes. In some cases, this is as simple as standing

outside the lounge and using the wifi since the wifi isn’t always password protected.

But what if the wifi is password protected?

You could always try hacking the password (or just guessing since lounge wifi passwords are often silly things like “loungewifi”), or you can look up the

lounge beforehand on Foursquare and see if anyone has posted the wifi password. For Most airport lounges with password-protected wifi, someone has posted the wifi password on Foursquare. So if you’re willing to do a tiny bit of research prior to your trip (or if you have internet access on your phone, you can just look it up at the airport), it’s possible that you can get free wifi at the airport. This of course doesn’t always work (and it’s possibly slightly maybe a little ethically dubious). In some cases, it’s not really feasible to stand or sit outside the lounge, or you won’t be able to get a good enough signal outside of the lounge.

But this tip may probably help in most airport terminals.

How to get wifi free at airport???