Charlie. There seems to be more wifi access on the Camino this year than in 2013. Just about every bar, hotel and albergue has it. Since I am taking photos of markers I have a lot of photos to upload, far too much for the 1.6 GB of phone data we have. It takes an hour or two to upload the photos each day.
All this wifi creates a naming problem. Sometimes it is the name of the bar or hotel. Sometimes it is something like ORANGE_74AF presumably the factory set name.
The password is given to anyone who comes in and is often posted on the wall. I have seen: 1234567890123, 0123456789, 123456 and others like that. Here at the Albergue El Puntido it is “elpuntido” the most common convention.
In the last place we had the slowest I have ever seen. A photo that normally downloads in a minute took over an hour. Tonight we have the fastest one we’ve seen.
Mostly the wifi is slow and the signal weak. Often it is not usable in the room only in the common areas.
Mobile data is okay in most places, sometimes 4G, usually 2G, sometimes worse or nonexistent.
The Meseta has been bad for data and even phone service. We had to use a landline pay phone here in Hontanas to make a reservation for tomorrow.