The cloud , btfon , etc and the other commercial wifi providers who operate in public are effectively just noise, its also evident to me that large coffee chains and hospitals , airports who use them are being lazy ? Just because they don’t understand wifi provision , they think outsourcing it to these companies is a good solution when in reality an open network would cost them very little, or even having these commercial wifi allow connections on the basis of registered device mac addresses which the router firmware determines by checking against a web located MySQL database, so that no web login is required for a provider once you have registered a device with them, as logging in takes too long, every time, what with flipping session timeouts, and bandwidth restrictions too small for streaming video etc, adding to the equation it’s all a real waste of life hidden under the catchphrase “free wifi here” certainly not free of pointless hassle, especially if the login web page doesn’t load immediately, and you have to try and force it to load, such pages loading are dependant on DNS being set to the router ip sometimes which is also real shitty. Basically I consider most of these wifi networks pollution and in fact it’s often faster to turn off wifi and use some of your 3G data plan for small web sessions or are on the move as your device may make the base connection to the wifi providers network and get jammed up, in data provision until wifi is turned off to allow priority for 3G data. If you have 3G etc, but really the demise of the free open networks in favour of these outsourced crappy commercial providers with web logins and charges is a very very sad affair, indicative of the shitty denominator things will nowadays collapse to in British culture, when reliant for provision of public services on the free market philosophical mantra.