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With your library card, you can place a hold on a wifi hotspot for a three week checkout.
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Add a SummaryThe Safelink Wireless program will give you a free smartphone with limited minutes each month. As for free internet, I purchased my laptop new, for about $119 at Target so offers from Seattle to have low income buy a laptop for about the same price shows how out of touch they are particularly with seniors and disabled citizens. Most low income people don't have $100 to spare. It would be great if the Hotspots weren't just a novelty but strictly reserved for those who truly need them. Dear Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
Who offers home internet service for low-income residents in Seattle?
https://www.seattle.gov/tech/services/internet-access/low-cost-home-internet-access-for-residents
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Add a CommentSuch a great service
Works great. Thank you so much for providing this free service.
theyre gaslighting me into thinking i didnt ask to be on the waitlist for another one i check them out they know the waits are too long theyre misusing taxpayer funds
Appreciate the services Seattle Library offers...I am disabled and not able to afford internet. It is a life saver for me as I live in remote area. Wish I could rent it out more often. Thanks for providing services much needed for people like myself. Verizon hot spots or Alcatel Thank YOU!
I am impressed with the performance! I never used the old Verizon units, but I recently tried one of the new T-Mobile powered Alcatel hotspots. I tried it outside the city (Fall City) and was getting 35-40mbps download speeds - quite impressive and just as fast as the Comcast wifi if not better! But where this is most useful is at a house in Queen Anne that doesn't have cable internet yet. Works great! If your in a place with weak tmo coverage it will be worse, but I've actually found T-Mobile to have a better signal then Verizon around the city.
1. Hotpsot was checked out without Library checking that PASSWORD inside box was READABLE.
It was blurred out due to moisture.
Before placing items on shelf Library needs to confirm all parterre in HOTSPOT box and password is READABLE.
2. T-Mobile service is poor quality in Eastern part of Washington state.
Cheap modems, limited frequency bands and cell towers hinder T-Mobile performance.
New Alcatel/T-Mobile wifi hotspots work better for me then the Verizon hotspots at home and I still get good coverage where ever I go on the West Coast.
Used to be great when it had Verizon service. Now it is useless. Too many places without T-Mobile service makes this unusable for many occasions. Bring back Verizon, please!
Alca Tel is a definite downgrade.
But I guess we shouldn't complain about having free internet now and then should we?
The library changed from Verizon that has great statewide coverage to T-Mobile where there is little to no use of this hot spot unless you are in Seattle. This was a cost-saving measure but what's the point of saving money if it doesn't work for the patrons of the library? I hope they will reconsider and go back to Verizon.