wifi now at @RBGSydney

The Royal Botanic Gardens recently announced their wifi.


I like the way they made it easy to find.


Hopefully your library is making it easy for people to know you have free wifi.

I will be participating in #blogjune

It seems a good idea, but I know that at times during June I will struggle with the daily posts, and some may be posted one or two days later.

I thought I would focus on signage (previous years have looked at libraries I would like to visit, and sources of inspiration).   There may be posts on other topics, and thirty days of posts on signs seems scary to me (as well as any readers).

This is my starting image.  It is some of the best wifi signage I have seen, and it was in the food court of Westfield at Burwood NSW.  All around the white area, there were hanging signs saying free wifi.  While looking at these it struck me that wifi is not always as obvious in public places.

This kind of sign really puts wifi in the public toilet category - in that they both should be free, with no barriers to use (no sign in required), they should be well maintained (fast wifi, clean toilets), and they should be available in lots of accessible public places - and you should have signs telling you where they are, rather than having to guess.

wifi in Dili

I found it hard to find locations for wifi in Dili as the information was out of date.  I had internet access where I stayed (which was good), but it was nice to occasionally use wifi (for updating ebooks).

Wifi options (and I only found four) included Dili Beach Hotel (about 15 minutes walk from where I was living).

This has a beach view.  You were given the wifi password once you had ordered something to eat or drink.  I went here a few times (it was only near the end of my time in Dili that I had time to do this).  I found people were bringing laptops or tablets and it was a social way to get internet access.  I had internet access where I was living, which was great, but I used wifi to update my ebooks.

Other wifi access was at the other end of the beach.  There were two small businesses (one a computer shop and the other a fast food place) which had wifi.

There was a third place (below) which was also beach front, and packed.  It seemed there was a high demand for free public wifi in Dili.  Libraries, few as there were,  were not providing wifi (and not all the libraries had internet access themselves).  This place below, always had lots of people using the wifi.