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Speeding Up Free Wifi Speed At The Denver Airport (DEN)

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 05:44 AM PST

I spend more time in the Denver Airport (DEN) laying over then any other airport. Every time I go west – Las Vegas, California, Utah, etc I am spending at least an hour laid over in DEN. Sometimes several and even sometimes I have spent the night in that airport when I missed my late connection home.

Now I usually have my Sprint mobile wifi dealio but that only lasts about 30 minutes without power and…. whats worse… The unit draws more power then it can charge being plugged in. So even plugged in I have at best 2 hours depending on usage.

Now fortunately in the Denver Airport they have FREE wifi. But there are some issues.

  • In order to get online you have to watch a 20-30 second commercial. Then a button will appear that gets you online.
  • Once you are online you get a bar at the top of your screen that peppers you with ads that refresh every 30 seconds.
  • Your DHCP lease only lasts 20 minutes. So every 20 minutes you have to watch another commercial before you can continue.

While I love  that Denver offeres FREE wifi its annoying when your in the middle of something and have to watch another commercial.   I have actually wasted a hour worth of work writing on a online site and losing all of my data because my session expired.  THAT SUCKS.

Also lots of times you will be surfing and pages seem to hang at the start then load very quickly.

The reason for this is because every time you goto a new web page the the system detects that and loads a new frame of ads.  These ads go through a ad server called adjuggler and they take forever to load.

This is my guide on how to fix these issues.

Remember first I told you that you have to watch a commercial.  Here is how we get around this.

When we first fire up our computer in the Denver Airport, connect to the Free Wifi, and try to go to any website we are redirected to this page:

Then comes the commercial:

After you watch the commercial you are given a button to connect to the internet and then you can surf the web with the injected javascript at the top which loads the ads:

So lets get started on how to get hassel free, super fast internet at the Denver Airport.

For the last 3 years the Denver Airport has chosen adjuggler to serve up these ads.  But maybe eventually they will switch.  So first you should just look at the source code of the page to see which one they are using:

The first step is to get rid of that “watch this commercial for 30 seconds” that interupts what you are doing and annoys the crap out of you.

As I said above our session on the network begins:

By redirecting us to the main page. This is when your computer pulls its internet address (good for 20 minutes) and the Airports router registers your computers mac address.

  1. Then we need to agree to terms
  2. Then we need to watch the movie.
  3. After the movie is over it automatically takes us to a page which registers to the router that we have completed our task and can now have internet access.

Because we have the MacOSX we can pull up Terminal and completely mimic this behavior so we never lose our data or have to watch a commercial again. (if you are a windows user you have bigger problems then speeding up the internet)

So we are going to run a simple bash script that:

  1. Registers our computer on the network
  2. Tells the router we have completed watching the commercial.

So fire up terminal and run this command:

(if you are a windows user you have bigger problems then speeding up the internet)

The next step in drastically speeding up your surfing is to disable these ads.

What we want to do is trick our computer into redirecting adjuggler.com into some place that loads fast.   The fastest place you can redirect is to your localhost (127.0.0.1).

You can do this a couple ways if you run MacOSX just by editing the /etc/hosts file.

Just paste in this command in your terminal:

while true; do curl http://freefinet.rtr ; sleep 1; http://freefinet.rtr/freefi.php ; sleep 60 ; done &

What this tells your computer to do is every 60 seconds, hit the first page, wait 1 second, hit the “I have finished watching the movie page”.

So basically every 60 seconds your computer will signal to the router that your good to go. The cool thing is that it wont re-register you unless your session has expired or you have dropped your connection in the airport. Sometimes I end up in the bowels of the Denver Airport and the wifi is very spotty so dropping connections are common which makes watching the commercial all that more sucky when you have to do it like every minute.

Now you can adjust as needed just change the 60 to whatever second interval you want.

Now lets work on getting rid of those advertisements at the top that keep bringing our surfing to an annoying crawl.

This one is really simple. We just want to trick our computer into thinking that adjuggler.com does not exist. To do that we redirect adjuggler.com to our localhost by typing this in the terminal:

echo "127.0.0.1 rotator.adjuggler.com" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

You actually only will ever have to do this once as it will perminatly write it to your hosts file. This will also eliminate other ads around the internet that use adjuggler.

Instead of waiting for ads to load you will now see this in the top frame:

And there you go. Uninterrupted much faster internet at the Denver Airport.

Other Noted Items:

If you are a Firefox user you can install the Adblock extension. Personally I use google Chrome or Safari as they are much faster and more secure.

I also don’t like to install 3rd party extensions from untrusted companies. I also don’ like to bloat an already bloated web browser with yet another plugin. But feel free to download it here. It works.

Speaking of Firefox you could also install greasemonkey and hack away to completely get rid of that top frame.

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Yesterday’s Marketplace Listings

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:00 AM PST

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Dan “The DJ” Gardner Dominates

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 05:56 PM PST

ShoeMoney Sponsored fighter Dan “The DJ” Gardner (3-1) was a huge under dog against veteran fighter James Birdsley (40-9) last Friday night in at the Showdown in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dan is normally a 155 pound fighter but moved up to welterweight after the 170lb Birdsley called him out.

I was happy to watch Dan put the wood to this bully.

Here is the entire fight. Make sure you watch the 2 minute mark where “The DJ” Brutally slams Birdsley.

But most importantly don’t miss the end where he gives a shout out to his sponsor ShoeMoney!!!!

Dan improves to 4-1 now and is quickly moving up the ranks.

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