BlindSquare - Tim Hortons trial - WiFi, to be avoided

Feedback received from some Tim Horton visitors that they could not hear the beacons.

Tim Hortons offers free WiFi

Tim Hortons offers free WiFi

Free Wifi is available at Tim Hortons locations to those who register as guests or register formally through their website.  

Once connected once, each successive visit at ANY Tim Hortons locations will attempt to reconnect.   The "reconnection" appears to work but unless the traveler has connected first to a web-browser, and confirmed their intention to use the site, you will not be connected to the internet.  If not connected to the internet, BlindSquare and other services (such as email) will not operate.

The solution are simple:

  1. Don't connect to Tim Hortons Wifi in the first place or
  2. If a connection HAS been made shutdown WiFi on the iPhone (Settings/WiFi/switch-off), reverting to cellular data.   BlindSquare's use of cellular data is inconsequential.