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Can I use the internet for free via Wireless Leiden?

Huub Schuurmans's picture

Wireless Leiden is not an Internetprovider!

We only facilitate a local, wireless network that interconnects local users. The use of the local network is free without restrictions. If users of Wireless Leiden want to share their internet connection they can do so. Note that not all providers allow this, check your contract!

There are a number of sponsored internet connections available on the network via 'proxies' (gateways) that can be used by anybody. Since 2012 it is also possible to connect to our network without defining a proxy. The capacity is limited and only webbrowsing is possible (so called 'port 80' and 'port 443' traffic; or 'http' and 'https'). For e-mail you need to use webmail (such as gmail, yahoo-mail, outlook.com webmail, etc.) or use the webmail portal to your e-mail account. For MSN or Skype you have to define the proxy settings in these programs, if you use our proxies.