How To: Find free and paid WiFi hotspots on Internet

There are over 130,000 free and paid WiFi hotspots in over 130 countries that can help you connect to Internet when you are traveling. Most of these are public hotspots and can get you connected right away without any hasseles. Two most comprehensive WiFi hotspot directories that provide information about free and paid WiFi hotspots around the world have over 144,000 hotspots in their databases.

With jiwire you can find and map to a WiFi hotspot from an available list of 130,309 hotspots. Another directory @ wifinder offers information about 14,407 hotspots around the world. You can even add your own hotspot to these directories.

JiWire helps you locate free and paid WiFi hotspot networks, secure your wireless Internet connections, and learn how to use Wi-Fi products and wireless broadband services.

Statistics on hotspots

As per wifinder’s website, these are the number of hotspots in their database.

As per jiwire, these are the stats for Top 10 countries, Top 10 cities and Top 10 location types.

Don’t forget to disable automatic connection settings in windows and also before you go out on a long holiday, ensure that your personal firewall, anti-virus software, anti spyware and anti adware softwares are upto date.