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Boingo currently offers Free 15 mins of WiFi use for iPhone users at their airport hotspots. Last month, AT&T also annouced that they are making all WiFi service at their hotspots free to iPhone users.

The Free Boingo Free WiFi hack guide below is working again with these free offers from Boingo and AT&T please pass this along and joy the free wifi at airports and hotspots across the country!

It seems unfair to us that Boingo announced it will give their Free Airport WiFi Access to only those travelers with the iPhones at their airport networks for the month of August. See our previous post about Boingo offer for list of airports We set out to find a way to hack this free offer from Boingo that will allow it to work for those of us surfing the Internet from a laptop. We did not have to look very far to find someone who had found a way to take advantage of this free WiFi offer from a laptop.

Dan at uneasysilence.com provides us with this great instruction on how to tap into this awesome Boingo offer. It is quite simple really, all you have to do is to make a change to your Browser’s User Agent setting and trick the network to think that your laptop is an iPhone. Here is Dan’s step by step instruction:

First you have to trick the website that you are visiting that you are actually an iPhone. To do that you need to modify your browsers ‘User Agent.’ If you use FireFox download User Agent Switcher (UAS) to start the process.
Then you need to alter the UAS settings (Tools - User Agent Switcher - Options - Options - User Agents - Add) to the following:
Dan's photo
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3
(Make sure all of that is on one line)

Enjoy your Free Bonigo airport Wi-Fi access!

Boingo annouce the free 15mins WiFi offer again for iPhone, so our Boingo/iPhone free WiFi hack for laptop user is working again :) Enjoy it and don’t forget to share it.

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4 Responses

  1. Airport WiFi Scout

    November 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am

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    Even though the Boingo promotion for iPhone user is no longer available after the month of August, we heard from an inside source that Boingo will be running a “broader smartphone offers” that will also include the iPhone sometimes near holidays or at the beginning of next years. So stay tune to Airportwifiguide.com because will let you know as soon as this new promotion from Boingo take place.

  2. Morten

    June 24th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

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    Actually its simpler than that. Open a browserwindow. When you get redirected, replace the last part of the URL (after the last slash) with “FreeOfferAboutMobile.aspx”

  3. i•am•nirav » Blog Archive » Errata

    July 23rd, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    3

    […] In my post about how to hack Boingo WiFi, I forgot to note that you can probably get unlimited access (instead of an hour per day) if you can change your computer’s MAC address. I also later was sent a link with a way to spoof your user agent using Firefox. […]

  4. Airport WiFi Scout

    July 24th, 2008 at 8:05 am

    4

    Thank you for sharing your Boingo tips with us. Many people have read this post and are enjoying their free Boingo wifi service at many airports across the US. This free hack wifi hack is still working and working well.

    Thanks!!


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