[jiggy2011]

I'm surprised there's still much money in selling wifi internet access.

People who want to use their internet on the move are very likely to have a smartphone or at least a dongle and 3G is usually fast enough.

Here in the UK the train services used to provide free wifi to travelers but recently they decided to charge for it and give the option of a free trial.

On my last journey I tried the free trial and found that it was just as slow as it had always been but was now £5 an hour.

I would have been seriously disappointed if I had paid for that service. Luckily I could just use my mobile phone tethering and get nice fast access.

Surely a better model would be to provide access for free but use some DNS redirection of the popular ad services to redirect the ads to ones of your choice and reap the benefits of those clicks.

I also let a lady in the carriage use my connection for a few minutes to check her emails so it's not like you necessarily need your own connection either.