I was fortunate enough to be asked to participate in a promotion by Boingo to test out and use their service. Boingo is a service that unifies many paid and free wifi hotspots together to give you one log in at all of these thousands of locations. The service runs $10 for a mobile version and $22 for the computer based version, there is also a $59 international option. I heard today that they have over 100,000+ wifi hotspots in their world wide network and it is growing regularly.

I have used Boingo now a hand full of times and have really appreciated the service. Recently I was at a Marriott and was connected immediately upon opening my MacBook. I had 2.8mbps down and 1.8mbps up, this provided and controled by the service provider iBahn but I was still pleased. The speeds are not great but the fact that I connected automatically and was able to do work like check email and surf the net was great. I look forward to using the service more as I will be traveling this winter a great deal and think this will really enhance my time in between meetings and at airports plus it will open up remote out of office locations where I can meet with people and now still be connected.

Thanks Boingo and I will keep you all informed of how Boingo keeps me connected. By the way congratulations to Boingo and Telefonica for their new partnership and adding tens of thousands of new hotspots in Spain.