Places with WiFi - Ann Arbor

Be sure to see Category:Free wifi hotspots for more locations! And help contribute to Wifi speeds at coffee shops or public locations which will eventually replace this page!

Where are all of the places that you can sit down with your laptop and have a cup of coffee in Ann Arbor, and if you do that how much will you pay for the coffee and how much for the internet link? (And how well will the net link work?)

The Wireless Washtenaw project was aimed at getting the whole county lit up, but it went bust. Now grab your coffee mug, library card, or bib:

Amer's on Church St.
Ann Arbor District Library offers free open wired and wireless access for everyone, and free public internet access including ssh:
- Downtown Library has wireless throughout, wired ports on the third floor, and 38 public machines on the 2nd floor.
- Malletts Creek Library has wireless throughout, wired ports at most tables, and 28 public machines.
- West Branch Library has wireless but no wired access, and 14 public machines.
- New Traverwood Library has good wireless access, as well as 24 public machines.
- Pittsfield Library has good wireless access, as well as 28 public machines.
Barry Bagels (Westgate) has open wireless.
Bombadill's Cafe in Ypsilanti has wifi.
Cafe Ambrosia: free wifi (new!) and lots of power outlets
Cafe Zola: open wifi, through neighboring Grizzly Peak
Carlyle Grill: stated on door sign, but untested
Common Cup Coffee Under The Lutheran Chapel on Washtenaw between S. University and Hill
Conor O'Neill's on Main
ERC
- Main St: free Internet,
- S. Main St: free Internet
- State St: free Internet,
- Plymouth Road: free wifi, etc.
- North Campus Pierpont Commons Underground: open wifi, $1 coffee refills
- South U: open wifi, $1 coffee refills, ethernet plugs downstairs do not work, wireless cuts in and out frequently
Fraser's Pub: open wifi, food and beer, smoking section
Great Wraps: open wifi, not always reliable
Kinko's S. State St: T-mobile internet, awful machine coffee, more copiers than you'd ever need
[Kentaro Web Consulting] at Main and E Washington in Downtown Ann Arbor
Office Depot wifi and printer paper
Panera Bread branches have free wifi (albeit not always reliably up), free refills on soft drinks and coffee
- Washtenaw near Whole Foods
- Jackson at Zeeb Road
- Collonade, Ann Arbor Saline and Eisenhower
Rendezvous Cafe; free Internet, open late, wifi and ethernet hookup, smoking section upstairs
Sweetwaters Kerrytown: has free WiFi, many power outlets
The Whole Foods Cafe on Washtenaw has wifi, but no power outlets
Zingerman's

South Campus Town
- Espresso Royale Cafe: open wifi
- Za's: free open wifi, very fast (essid: "Silver Wireless")
- Starbucks: expensive t-mobile wifi

Note that you do not have to be inside a building to connect to the wifi access point. Often, you can sit outside, or in an adjacent building, and still connect. For example, you can sit in Qdoba and connect to the S. Main Expresso Royale access point.