Travelpost.com has the most comprehensive guide to free and paid wireless access in US airports. To see the guide, click here (link from Glenn Fleishman).

Airport Wi-Fi access is one of my pet peeves. Last week in San Francisco, I logged onto my T-Mobile Wi-Fi service, but when I got to Logan Airport, surely one of the world’s worst airports and one I will never fly through again unless I really have to, has no T-Mobile, instead you have to sign up with Boingo or the local airport provider. I tried the latter and after typing in my details, a screen kept coming up saying, “Timed Out”.

All these different airports with different paid subscription services - Wayport, Boingo, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and so on. So if you are traveling around for days, you will have a credit card bill containing a long list of charges from different providers, no doubt, you have used one or more of them for only an hour or less.

This is where free access comes in. Airports don’t charge me extra for use of the restrooms so please, provide free Wi-Fi access so we don’t have to keep typing in credit card numbers, coming across frustrating screens that don’t work and ending up with having paid too much money for 20 minutes.

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