Free Wi-Fi in GTA area

[aznangel]

Seeing as the other thread for this is dead, I have decided to start another thread with regards to the free wi-fi spots in the GTA area.
This is in the interest of advancing thread: http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/s...d.php?t=325036

FOR ALL WIFI ADDITIONS, PLEASE PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFO:
- location:
- hours:
- condition:

Providing it in this format will make my job 10x easier since i can just copy and paste your post

From jackie26:
Here is a link that gives you hotspots all over Canada, and shows which ones are free.

Select the province and then the city. Take it one more step back and you can look in other countries too.

http://www.jiwire.com/hot-spot-direc...m?country_id=1

or use this link
http://studenttravel.about.com/gi/dy...-canada-ca.htm

Starbucks has 2 hours free wifi for people with a starbucks card and free unlimited wifi for bell subscribers.

2 hours of Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks with Card

Free Wifi for Bell customers in participating Starbucks locations

for starbucks, you use the number on the back of the starbucks card. and for bell users, I think you use your password and username that you register with Bell.

Area:
Toronto:

Really good list of hotspots around toronto: http://auth.wirelesstoronto.ca/hotspot_status.php

Toronto Pearson International Airport:
- location: you should know this guys =)
- condition: 15 x 2 minute usage sessions
- instructions: select Boingo hotspot, free trial option, click on the ad once, then you are in

Toronto Public Libraries:
- location: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/spe_ser_wir.jsp
- condition: none
- hours: dependent on library

Second Cup/Starbucks:
- condition: $9/hr of wifi-use, provided by Rogers (pending removal =( ... i think if you are an existing rogers data customer than you can use it? anybody know the exact conditions of use?)
- hours: dependent on location

Williams coffee pubs:
- condition: none
- hours: dependent on location

Apple Stores:
- condition: none
- hours: store hours

All Select Sandwich locations
- condition: none
- hours: store hours

Sherway Gardens - Sony store
- condition: none
- hours: store hours

Artisano Bakery Café Ltd.
- location: http://artisanobakery.com
1020 Islington Avenue (just north of Queensway) Phone: (416) 207-9940
- condition: none
- hours: store hours

Mr. Sub
- location: 494 Yonge Street,Toronto, ON M4Y 1X5 (post #130 for more pictures)
- condition: none
- hours: store hours

Markham:

All Markham Libraries and Community Centers except Thornhill village library:
- condition: none
- hours: dependent on library
- for more information: http://mpl.markham.ca/wifi_faqs.htm

Name: Pixel 8 (teashop):
- location: Kennedy & 16th Avenue (right at Kennedy & Bur Oak Ave. to be exact, in the plaza) - in Markham
- condition: netid: Pixel 8 pwd: abcde12345
- hours: weekdays: 10am - 12pm (weekends unknown)

YMCA:
- location: enterprise rd
- condition: none
- hours: ?

Go for Tea (BBT place):
- location: Leslie and Highway 7
- condition: none
- hours: M-F (Wi-fi turned off at 6p.m. or 9 p.m. on Friday - conflicting reports regarding this... I think it is 9 though)

Destiny (BBT place):
- location: East Beaver Creek and Highway 7
- condition: none
- hours: Sunday - Thursday

Brix:
- location: Leslie and Highway 7 (next door to Go for Tea)
- condition: none
- hours: ?

A Place for Us (BBT place):
- location: Rodick and Highway 7 - in First Markham Place
- condition: none
- hours: ?

Country Style:
- location: highway 7 & leslie
- condition: none
- hours: ?

Scarborough:

http://www.jiwire.com/search-wifi-ho...hnology_id=0&v enue_group_id=0&city_id=0&disableBrowseBy=false&ty pe=&latitude=&longitude=&country_id=2&state_id=61& city=scarborough&hotspot_name=&address=&zip=&locat ion_type_id=0&provider_id=0&pay_free=free&radius=1 0.0
This site has some more info regarding to the FREE Wi-Fi locations in Scarborough. courtesy of jkyc

Tea Shop 168:
- location: ?
- condition: none
- hours: wifi apparently always on

Country Style:
- location: Markham and Lawrence
- condition: none
- hours: ?

Downtown Toronto:

Wall Street Coffee Roastery:
- location: Yonge & College/Carlton, 45 Carlton st.
- condition: required pwd: fresh
- hours: ?

Dufferin Mall:
- location: primarily in food court http://www.dufferinmall.ca/
- condition: none
- hours: ?

1881 Yonge Street building
- location: South of Davisville (1881 Yonge Street Building)
- condition: none
- hours: probably 24/7

Urbana Coffee:
- location: 1033 Bay St.
- condition: none
- hours: ?

Red Rocket Coffee:
- location: Leslieville - www.redrocketcoffee.com - 1402B Queen St East
- condition: buy something
- hours: 7am - 7pm M-F, 8am - 7pm Sat & Sun

Linux Caffe:
- location: on Harbord @ Grace, 326 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON, M6G 3A4 --> http://linuxcaffe.ca/
- condition: Buy coffee,but They even broadcast wifi into the adjacent park so you can sit under the shade on a park bench in the summer to work if you like.
- hours: M-F: 7-11 Sat: 10-11 Sun:10-5

Espresso Etc:
- location: 350 Dundas Street West --> http://www.espressoetc.ca/
- condition: buy a drink/coffee, etc..
- hours: ?

Aroma Espresso Bar:
- location:500 Bloor Street West (On Bloor just east of Bathurst) --> http://www.aromaespresso-bar.com/
- condition: buy a coffee/tea code is on the receipt
- hours:7:30am - 11pm (according to their website)

Jet Fuel Coffee:
- location: 519 Parliament St.
- condition: none ( they have amazing coffee according to post )
- hours: ?

Cafe 260:
- location: 260 Richmond Street East - www.cafe260.com
- condition: none
- hours: M-F:7am-7pm Sat & Sun: 9am - 5pm

Bubble Mix:
- location: 263 Wellington St. W. Unit 102 (416-599-8811)
- condition: ?
- hours: ?

World Class Bakers:
- location: 690 St Clair Ave W(http://www.mystclair.com/private/oldsite/wcb/ )
- condition: ?
- hours: M-S 7am-11pm

Uptown Toronto:

Murphy's Law Pub
- location: North-West Corner of Queen East & Kingston Road
- hours: Mon-Fri 11:30am- 2:00am, Sat-Sun, Holidays 10:30am- 2:00am
- condition: login: murphyswifi, pswd:murphyswifi

Ideal Coffee
- location: North-East corner of Queen East and Asdale Ave (west of Coxwell)
- hours: unknown
- condition: pswd: can't remember, but it's listed on a sign that is taped to their cash register

Beachside Grill
- Queen East, 2 blocks past Woodbine on the North side
- hours: unknown
- condition: none

Yorkdale Mall:
- location: Sony store, Caseys
- condition: none
- hours: store hours probably

Centrepoint Mall:
- location: food court
- condition: none
- hours: ?

St Louis Bar & Grill:
- location: 2050 Yonge St between Davisville & Eglinton
- condition: none
- hours: noon - 1:00 am

YMCA:
- location: Bayview and Sheppard
- condition: none
- hours: ?

Country Style:
- location: Warden and Metropolitan
- condition: none
- hours: ?

McDonalds:
- location: McCowan and Finch
- condition: get code from cashier
- hours: ?

Mississauga:

All Mississauga Libraries and Community Centers:
- condition: valid library card
- hours: dependent on location

Marriott - Courtyard Mississauga-Airport Corporate Centre West
- location: 5050 Creekbank Rd, L4W 5R2
- condition: none
- hours: ?

Failte Irish Pub

- location: 201 City Centre Drive Mississauga, On L5B 2T4
- hours: Mon-Sun 11am-1am ,Tue-Sat 11am-2am
- condition: Open network no password required.

Krispy Kreme:
- location: Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga
- condition: none
- hours: Friday to Saturday 6:00am to midnight Sunday to Thursday 6:00am to 11:00pm

Oakville place
- location:Oakville place
- condition: none
- hours: mall hours

Geox
location: Square one Mall, Mississauga
hours: Mall hours
condition: -

Richtree
- location:100 City Centre Drive Mississauga, ON L5B 2C9
- hours:Mon - Fri - 8:00am to 9:00pm,Sat - 9:00am to 6:00pm,Sun - 10:00am to 6:00pm
- condition: you need the password. Last time i was there it was the store phone number 905-272-1010, but if that doesn't work you can just ask the manager for the password and they'll give you the updated one but i doubt they change it.


Thanks are owed to the following members for contributing this information, hopefully this will get stickied one day XD:
xiLLeNtz, thnh_jade, warlockdilemma (much thanks for submitting a lot of places), crashcourse, papagorgio, naxos98, dragon208, pnpatrick, ing74, YLSE, SirAlain, Gundam, mrsauga, KelvinK, emoci, sheriffabc, farkaland, sprung, spazzamatic, dbusguy, toronto_slim, crimzaelus, voilet_8, Dash, jkyc, EM_k19, HowEver, annaj, pnyknights, dbusguy, hooked on wifi, abapaz, Roush, pvrt10

[Papagorgio]

Urbana Coffee@ 1033 Bay St.

Free WiFi

[naxos98]

Mississauga - Library and Community Centers
Need valid library card

Link to city website with the details and locations
http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/services/wireless

[aznangel]

thanks for the help, original post has been updated
hopefully this will get stickied after a while

free bump =)

Please post your findings here please!!!

[rems]

For the Second Cup one, what do you mean by $9/hr. Do you have to buy at least $9 of stuff every hour. Or do they charge you $9/hr for wifi - which doesn't make it free anymore and probably doesn't belong in this thread.

[dragon208]

Go For Tea's wifi is only available during the weekdays..
Monday thru Friday afternoon like 9pm.. after that it's turned off cause that's their busy hours!
fyi

[aznangel]

Thread updated
Bump

please stick to updating the thread instead of pming now unless i start slacking on thread updates =(

i'll update the original post as much as possible

[OldnwiseS01]

All country styles have free wi-fi to my knowledge?

[CanadaBoy]

I read it as free Wii-Fit

[Papagorgio]

they don't.. not the ones in Scarborough anyway..

All country styles have free wi-fi to my knowledge?

[pnpatrick]

Pretty sure the McDonalds at McCowan and Finch have Free Wi-Fi

You just have to get the code from the cashier.

Anyways, nice place too. Comfy chairs. Great place to loungee

[aznangel]

post updated with mcdonalds

[h00ch]

For those of us in GTA West and uses Cogeco as their ISP, there's a whole bunch of free hot spots available to you: http://www.cogeco.com/en/wifi_o.html

[crashcourse]

Timothy's Bayview Village

[xiLLeNtz]

an update to gofortea, you can technically get wi-fi there all the time, because when their networks are 'down' you can always connect to brix which is next door, and also provides free wifi.

destiny tea house which is pretty much across the street also offers wifi, with the exception on friday and saturdays?