Brisbane City Council switched on their free wi-fi service in Wynnum Central earlier this year. If you stroll down Edith Street you might see signs like the one pictured on a Council bin alerting you to the new service.
Free wi-fi has been a long time coming to Wynnum – a delegation from the chamber of commerce and WynnumCentral first proposed the idea to Council back in 2014, with a view to jointly financing this. This was at a time when WynnumCentral was trialing a free wi-fi system which also gave usefulfeedback on roughly how many people were coming along on market days.
The installation of wi-fi became a policy proposal of the LNP candidate who ran against Cr Peter Cumming at the last council election. As Cr Cumming got back in, the topic of free wi-fi was off the agenda, until it came back on again mid last year.
In the four years since the initial discussion, technology has moved on, with most people now carrying a 4G device around with them which in our test (on an iPhone 8) was delivering a healthy 30.88Mbps connection through the phone. Although there is a cost to this, most phone plans include a reasonable daya allowance.
Have you used the Brisbane City Council free wi-fi in Wynnum Central? If so, let us know your experiences in the comments below or on our Facebook page.
You can see all the Brisbane City Council free wi-fi zones on this page
Update
A call to the Brisbane City Council wi-fi hotline indicated that there may be a problem with the Wynnum install – we’ll let you know if we hear anything. The free wi-fi is subject to a limit of 250Mb download per device per day. If too many devices are trying to connect at once, some users my be disconnected.
