Categories: Airport WiFi

Post #36 (Premium) Airport Lounges; Better WiFi There?

I am not a professional computer tech. nor I.T. trained. I keep reasonably informed (I believe & hope). You may wish to follow along with my thoughts about travel WiFi security ideas I research & share here, being my own personal opinions & points of view. Your own thinking & conclusions are also necessary. Hopefully I can save you some time by sending some of your thoughts in helpful directions & towards useful questions.

Okay; I haven’t (yet) been to an airport lounge that offers foot massage. Some relaxation built into a long travel day, by booking in to a premium lounge, I have appreciated. Although so far I use my own (personal) portable internet hotspot when traveling, an additional WiFi opportunity has occurred to me. I mostly use my internet travel hotspot in either my hotel room or cruise ship (sleeping) cabin. I also purchase a daypass to a premium airport lounge if I have a lengthy airport layover (3 – 4 hrs. makes the cost worth it to me). I haven’t used my internet hotspot there.

It occurs to me that I may be missing out on one of the (included) services in those airport lounges. Is there fast & more secure WiFi there?

My beginner questions include:

is WiFi in a (premium) airport lounge, also premium level?
is the WiFi high speed? (faster than other public WiFi in the airport?)
does the WiFi there have more/better security?

I am pretty good at searching out internet info. Yet so far I do not find all the answers to my above questions. My usual tendency is to dig further and/or start doing my own research. & Apply some logic.

I have already seen multiple comments leading to beliefs that inside some airport lounges, the WiFi is:

a network dedicated to that lounge (not the same public WiFi network as the rest of the airport);
tending to be higher speed inside such lounges; &
one of the included services that make lounges (to me) worth paying for (I have my limits how much I will pay…).

I did not find much commenting yet whether it tends to be a more secure network. An important question for lots of us.

A beginning logical question I would reflect on: Is this airport in a country that tends to protect (or intrude on) one’s privacy?

Some of the questions I might start asking staff at airport lounges:

Do you have comments about the WiFi in this lounge (compared to out in the rest of the airport?).
How secure is the WiFi network here? (E.g.: on lunch break, would you be comfortable logging on to do some banking?).
Can you comment: do you think some brands of airport lounge have more secure WiFi than others?
Can you comment: do you think particular airports have more secure WiFi networks?
Can you comment: do you think airports in particular countries have more secure WiFi networks in their airports?
Is there an internet tech. here or in this airport’s customer service that might have comments on these questions?

Now I am getting quite curious. I may try to do some traveler polls on social media. I will probably start asking some internet techs. and/or travel bloggers these questions (e.g. manager of the passengers’ internet centre on cruise ship(s)).

& I may circle around to this topic again. More than once.

Kellie6591