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  • Almonte
  • Carleton Place
  • Mississippi Mills
  • Pakenham
  • Beckwith
  • Perth

Wi-Fi Hotspots in Lanark County Ontario Canada

Town SSID Company Location
Almonte EquatorCafe Equator Coffee 451 Ottawa St (*3)
Almonte smARTown free WIFI Mississippi Mills Chamber of Commerce Downtown area
Almonte Almonte Library Public Library 155 High St, Almonte
Almonte Tim Hortons WiFi Tim Hortons (*5) 105 Sadler Ln,  Almonte
Almonte Patrice's Public WiFi Patrice's YIG 401 Ottawa St,  Almonte
Arnprior Tim Hortons WiFi Tim Hortons (*5) 2 Staye Ct Dr; 201 Madawaska Blvd Arnprior
Arnprior BELLWIFI@MCDONALDS McDonalds (*5) 16 Baskins Rd, Arnprior,
Arnprior Antrim_Public Antrim Truckstop Restaurant 580 White Lake Rd  Arnprior
Arnprior librarywireless Arnprior Public Library (*4) 21 Madawaska St.,  Arnprior
Carleton Place CP-Library Carleton Place Public Library 101 Beckwith
Carleton Place readspublic Reads Book Shop 135 Bridge St 
Carleton Place Tim Hortons WiFi Tim Hortons (*5) HWY-7 & McNeely Ave, Carleton Place, 144 Franktown Rd, Carleton Place.
Carleton Place BELLWIFI@MCDONALDS McDonalds (*5) 450 McNeely Ave, Carleton Place
Pakenham   Fulton's Pancake House #291, 6th Concession Road RR#1, Pakenham
Pakenham   Pakenham Public Library 128 MacFarlane Street, Pakenham
Pakenham Love That Barr Love That Barr (*4) 2496 Country Rd 29, Pakenham
Perth coutts coffee Coutts & Company Code's Mills, 17 Wilson St. East (*3)
Perth LibraryAP Perth & District Union Public Library 30 Herriott Street (*4)
Perth Tim Hortons WiFi Tim Hortons (*5) 98 Dufferin St; 136 Gore St E, Perth
Perth Welcome to Perth WiFi Town of Perth Gore St E, Perth
Smiths Falls SFPL Wireless Smiths Falls Public Library 81 Beckwith St. N.
Smiths Falls Tim Hortons WiFi Tim Hortons (*5) 76 Beckwith St N,: 111 Lombard St, Smiths Falls

Last update: Mar 14, 2014

This is a directory of free public access WiFi hotspots that I have encountered, or readers have told me about in Lanark county and Arnprior. All of these spots listed are or appear to be intended for public access.

Note 1: This site is free, but the proprietor requires that you buy something in order to use the hotspot.
Note 2: This site is free, and is intended for Hotel guests and restaurant patrons.
Note 3: Customers are required to buy something and then request a password to use the site.
Note 4: Patrons request a password to use the site.
Note 5: This is a chain wide policy of providing WiFi in most franchise locations.

If you have any additional ones that I have missed, and you are the owner of a site, please e-mail me and I will add it to my table. If on the other hand, you are the owner of a site, and you do not intend the public to be able to use your wireless site, then please contact me and I will remove it from my table, and assist you in making your site private.

Times have changed since I started this list. I used to use these hotspots to get e-mail, and research problems when I was away from home. Now I can teather my laptop to my Android cell phone to connect it to the Internet. I can also read my e-mails on my smart phone, so I rarely have any reason to look for new free hotspots. So to keep this current, feedback from people who live in this communities is required if this is going to remain current and useful.

If you offer public access to the Internet using your WiFi connection, then I suggest that you include one of the following words in the SSID of your wireless access point:

  • public
  • hotspot
  • free

The SSID value can be between 1 and 32 characters long and can contain any displayable characters (In fact it can contain some non-displayable ones as well but this is not a good idea.).