I used to be involved in the captive portal at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne (previously Etihad Stadium). Usage is _very_ demographically aligned. At football ga

I used to be involved in the captive portal at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne (previously Etihad Stadium). Usage is _very_ demographically aligned. At football games, we’d see connected device numbers somewhere around 10% of ticket sales. At a Justin Bieber show it was over 90%. I have always had more mobile data available than I need, and I can’t remember the last time I bothered using a venue’s wifi (that wasn’t for work/testing purposes) Back in the pre-Netflix days here I .au, I used to have a Raspberry Pi with a USB wifi dongle and a high gain antenna pointed at the local Mac Donalds - that’d monitor MAC addresses on their wifi waiting for one to stop transmitting, then it’d update its own MAC address to piggyback someone else’s T&C agreement, and run bit torrent until the connection ran out of its bandwidth quota, then it’d go back into monitor mode. I pirated the first couple of seasons of GoT ~500MB at a time that way…