netloan Wi-Fi voted best

There is plenty of promise in this area. Municipal Gothnet and British company The Cloud says that they have a "record high wireless network" that covers large parts of central town. Vodafone says that you can "surf really fast" and rival Rover Rabbit promises "good, easy and affordable" access.

In reality, it works like that. Hourglass and error messages appear on the screen. It requires patience to not give up.

We took a round through the center of town and tried to connect to us at 17 different locations. It went smoothly, five (5) times. In two places where the bumps and the rest impossible.

Many of the seats would be covered under the advertising of the said town line, known as the Gothenburg Wireless. But when we sat on the example Kungstorget we had no connection with any of our three machines - two laptops and an iPod.

Similarly, it was at Gustaf Adolf's square, at the Swedish Trade Fair, the Iron Market and the Stena Terminal, all of which are on Gothnets coverage map. The company has previously spoken of wireless links "inside the moat", but such large Nygatan and Feskekörka turned out to be stone dead from this point.

In our test worked Gothenburg Wireless smoothly in Finland but is causing the problems in most other places. It appeared in the list of available networks but could not enter.

Rover Rabbit, which cooperates with the retail chain 7-Eleven, worked well on Vasagatan and after some hassles even at the Fair.

Something went better with Telia Homerun-zones. We had good connections in the Central, North Town, in Bältespännarparken and Vasagatan. After some hassles did it on Kungsportsplatsen.

The rate was consistently moderate, at most around 2 Mbit / s downstream.

Rate of connection varies greatly. Gothenburg Wireless costing as much as 60 kronor an hour if you want to surf usual - you can read the GP and check out tourist information for free. Rover Rabbit takes SEK 19 for the same period. Both have a long-winded registration and you must use the entire time surfing right away.

Telia is SEK 19 for two hours, which can be used over a period of seven days. It is clearly the most affordable of the commercial operators. You pay quite easily via SMS, but it is inconvenient to yourself: you may squint against mobile screen while typing on the computer or surfing the plate.

We've saved the best for last. City Library's network is fast, reliable and free. Login is simple and good speed: around 10 Mbps when we measured. You must already have a library card and also the library PIN code.

Gothenburg wireless (Free to read GP)
Login: Many contractual rows to fill in such title. Pay by card. Then directly into the grid.
Coverage: We tested in many places, but only touch on the Central Station. Places where it did not work: Royal Square, Kungsportsplatsen, Bältespännarparken, teacher, Gustav Adolf Square, Feskekörka, the Swedish Trade Fair (main entrance), Stena Denmark Terminal.
Speed: 1.8 Mbps (receiving) and 0.6 Mbps (send).
Cost: SEK 60 for 60 minutes, 90 £ for 180 minutes and 120 SEK for one day. The clock is ticking started right away and it can not save surfing time at a later date.
Miscellaneous: Four pages are free: gp.se, gu.se, chalmers.se and gothenburg.com with tourist information. In particular, Finland, the city network of competitive surfing stations that take 19 per hour.

Telia HomeRun (Pretty cheap)
Login: Received username and password by SMS after payment. On the iPod did not show the entire Web page - it was not possible to see how you pay.
Coverage: Worked well in North Town, Bältespännarparken, on Kungsportsplatsen and Vasagatan off course and Newspaper Library. Choppy on a few other places.
Speed: 2.8 Mbps (receiving) and 1.7 Mbps (send).
Cost: An SMS ticket in 2 hours for 19 £ for seven days. With card payment is the shortest possible time a month for 99 kr.
Miscellaneous: Should funka up to 450 meters from a hotspot, such as telephone booth. When we logged out and in again started the counter again, and it was not how much time remaining.

Rover Rabbit (The time can not be shared)
Login: Error message a few times in the first test site, we fell out and had to fill out the form again. We paid by card and got the login.
Geographical coverage: Did well at the main entrance to the Swedish Trade Fair, Vasagatan off course and Newspaper Library.
Speed: 1.0 Mbps (receiving) and 0.5 Mbps (send).
Cost: 19 kr for 60 minutes, 39 kr for a day and 199 SEK a month. You may not distribute your hour on several occasions: 60 minutes from first login apply.
Miscellaneous: Found no logout button, so that a fellow can not "inherit" your surfing time. Receipt directly via email. 7-Eleven as a home.

City Library, Götaplatsen (Best in Test)
Login: Easily with data from credit card. It's fast and we have full strength.
Coverage: In and around the library. Many branches also have wireless networks.
Speed: 11.4 Mbps (receiving) and 10.7 Mbit / s (send).
Cost: Free with library card.
Miscellaneous: Was kicked out of emails again. Bredbandskollen hanged himself a few times.

We used a laptop PC and a Mac laptop and an Ipod Touch 2G. The computers were three-four years old and had built in wireless network card. Velocity was measured using Bredbandskollen.se on both computers - the reported figures are the average of the measurements. The test was done during the day in 37 weeks.
The Spanish company Fon says it has Sweden's largest WiFi network. By users, so-called Foneros, relinquishes part of its wireless broadband space, others can log on to the open network.
We had with us a map with hotspots on the town but failed to find any of Fons zones.

Most reasonably new computers have built-in wireless networking. Anyone who has an older computer can use an external network, which often is a USB box.
Many mobile phones and some other appliances can also use wireless Internet. Music and video players like iPod Touch and some Archos models, and game machines like Sony PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS, serves as surf boards. (The latter requires that you purchase a Web browser.) Watch for the terms "WiFi" or "WLAN" in the product description.