Woo-hoo! Free Wifi at McDonald’s

JONESBORO, Ark. – I’m at the McDonald’s at Caraway and Nettleton in Jonesboro and they do, indeed, have free Wifi.

And the word is apparently spreading. I noticed a couple of ASU kids with their laptops in a booth. My only complaint at this point is that electrical outlets are very scarce at McDonald’s, so the blogging and surfing will have to be on battery power.

As I’ve said before, this is a huge development for those of us who travel with netbooks or laptops. It almost makes me question the wisdom of buying a Sprint G3/G4 USB aircard. Almost.

Now that there’s free Wifi at McDonald’s and Starbucks and I have the Sprint accessory, there will be very few places where I won’t have Internet connectivity.

The welcome page includes a comprehensive listing of McDonald’s Wifi locations. Here are the numbers:

State	Number of Locations
Alabama	199
Alaska	27
Arizona	206
Arkansas	130
California	1,084
Colorado	151
Connecticut	126
Delaware	33
District of Columbia	30
Florida	732
Georgia	350
Hawaii	61
Idaho	37
Illinois	581
Indiana	316
Iowa	104
Kansas	127
Kentucky	215
Louisiana	207
Maine	39
Maryland	265
Massachusetts	207
Michigan	491
Minnesota	178
Mississippi	115
Missouri	295
Montana	39
Nebraska	70
Nevada	85
New Hampshire	55
New Jersey	225
New Mexico	80
New York	574
North Carolina	382
North Dakota	18
Ohio	532
Oklahoma	168
Oregon	107
Pennsylvania	448
Rhode Island	29
South Carolina	174
South Dakota	23
Tennessee	266
Texas	845
Utah	77
Vermont	27
Virginia	372
Washington	178
West Virginia	85
Wisconsin	221
Wyoming	19

You can find individual locations by city through the online location list. I am mildly surprised to find they even have free Wifi at my hometown McDonald’s in Delphi, Ind., although I doubt anyone who works there is smart enough to keep it going.