A Travel Tip - Free Hotel Wireless

I've found an easy and legit way to get wireless in a hotel room without having to pay for it.
Most hotels charge for internet connectivity in their rooms, but offer free connectivity in the lobby. Some hotels give you an hour for free in the lobby, some give you 24 hours, like the one I'm in right now. The paid option in the room is nearly always for 24 hours.
When you connect to the internet, either in the lobby or in the room, a timer is set counting down how much time you have left. The timer is the same for either scenario; the mechanism for setting the timer is the only difference, with the room connection requiring payment.
Working around this is simple.
Bring your laptop to the lobby, connect and sign in for free service, then, with the laptop still on and connected, head back to the room. The connection may need to be reset, but the timer will still show time remaining and will remain connected. Sometimes the hour given at the lobby becomes 24 hours in the room.
I've done this in a couple of hotels now, and have only paid for connectivity when I needed the bandwidth of a wired connection.