Library? Starbucks? Lots of places have free WiFi. You're an idiot.

Now you can use wifi anywhere. If it really is a portable one, it wasn't really meant to be used at your house anyway.

At least now you can have wifi wherever you go.

Starbucks?? Panera?? McDonald's?? Y u do dis

YDI, I had to finish my masters right after Hurricane Sandy, and had no power for 3 weeks, and no Internet for 4-5. Didn't stop me from finding the computer lab/library/cafe in order to get my work done.

Think on the bright side, in w if your internet ever fails again. You have the WiFi hub.

Hello everyone, OP here. I'm surprised this made it in! The main problem with the internet going down when it did was that the library has very limited hours during Easter break and, also due to the holiday, my department and almost all university facilities are closed, which is where I would normally go to get internet if I couldn't have it at home. I also 'could' get free wifi in places like cafes, but often cannot get any meaningful work done in public places where people are being loud and I don't have room for my books, notebooks, etc. I also thought it would be worth it to be able to work at home since I am a night owl and do most of my best work in the evenings, when most places where I could get free wifi would be closed. In addition, the day I submitted the FML wasn't the first day the internet had been out, and I had been having trouble finding a peaceful place to work while being repeatedly told that Tuesday was the earliest I could expect to get regular internet back. It was also a bigger problem because I live in university housing (college) and the internet was out in my entire college AND in the one next to mine, so I figured that I wouldn't be the only one to use the wireless thing (as we all have deadlines to meet and I wasn't the only one upset about this) and the others could chip in for the cost. I wouldn't even have minded shouldering the cost myself if I was actually going to get some use out of the thing because it would have been worth it to be able to work at home, or at least in a more comfortable location than a fast food restaurant or Starbucks. I just thought it was irritating (and funny at my own expense) that the internet picked both the worst time to go out AND to come back on. Since it seemed like a belated and very elaborate April Fool's joke on me, I decided to make something good of it and send it in to FML. By the way, I don't THINK I can return the thing, but I'll be going back in to the shop to check on that on Tuesday, and, if not, as others have said I can always get use out of it while travelling, or if the internet goes out again, which it has before (not at any particularly crucial times before this though). At the very least, now I have a funny story to tell.

Thanks #83. I actually ended up being pretty productive this weekend in spite of all that. And I really don't take comments from people who don't know the whole story personally. Going to the library or other appropriate study spaces as most of them said would have even been a viable option, if any of those places had actually been open during Easter week/end. I mentioned the fact that Easter complicated things in my original submission, since almost everything here shuts down or mostly shuts down around Easter time, but I guess the FML team edited that part out.

You know that you can go places for free wifi or internet, like a LIBRARY!

just go to a coffee shop or anywhere really