What would you do with free wifi?

The BBC News Technology team recently took off for the day to explore the new free wifi connection in Norwich. Since I have moved jobs and my internet connection appears to be monitored more heavily, it started me thinking about what a local city wide free wifi connection would do for me. Lunchtime would be the best opportunity to use it.

Armed with my trusty Macbook - here's my list of top 5 possible uses.

Skype
I could call people cheaply, for free or just for the hell of it. Many smaller devies are starting to use Wifi too - so I could realisticly chat to friends at lunchtime for free. Chatting to the wife at lunchtime via the webcam could start a whole new aspect of our (sex) life.

Surfing
Well, this one is obvious really. A monitored (and blocked) internet connection can be quite restricting. "Business Use Only" can be a term applied to quite a few websites, but the ones I mainly frequent such as my Gmail, Bloglines, Digg and Del.icio.us accounts cannot always be brought under that term. A bit of lunchtime pr0n could be fun, as could MSN messenger, B3ta and most of the other sites that I get blocked from! I hope the next place I work is a little less tense about it all.

Torrents
So, you are at work, your laptop is in your car, downloading torrents all the time! I'm sure there's a dirty way to hook a laptop up to a spare car battery and leave it running in the boot. Come out at lunchtime to check the progress and tweak you upload/download settings!

Gaming
I own (pwn) a Nintendo DS Lite and would love a bit of free city wide Wifi gaming action! I would play it more and would probably be inclinded to buy more games as a result. I could also get gaming on my Mac too if I wanted. World Of Warcraft anyone? Bring along your Xbox360 and get it hooked up online for a lunchtime Texas Hold-em tournament!

Blogging
I purposely stay away from using my blog at work. Not that I don't want them to find it or anything, or that I am ashamed of what I put on here, it's just better to be safe than sorry these days. I still read and comment on other blogs via my Bloglines account and some of the content on there seems to sneak past their web filtering systems which normally blocks sites to do with Games, web-based email, Tasteless, Proxy Avoidance and Entertainment. I miss being able to blog from work.

I might actually take my laptop out for a walk with me at lunchtime - or for a drive. There is a housing estate next to where I am working and I bet there is somewhere I could get an unrestricted connection if I wanted. It might look a bit odd though if I stand outside their house with my laptop! I might to be a little more discrete.