Free WiFi
The City launched a free telecommunications-grade wireless ‘hotzone’ for Leederville’s busy café precinct at the 2013 Light Up Leederville Carnival, Sunday 1 December.
The service will be available along Oxford Street (south of Vincent Street and up to Leederville Parade) and extends into Newcastle Street (up to the Water Corporation) and also Carr Place (up to the finish of the cafe/retail area).
Mayor John Carey says, “Free WiFi is a necessary amenity for any modern urban culture and this service will only strengthen Leederville’s economy and cafe culture. We thank the local business community for their cooperation in hosting the necessary tech to get this up and running.”
Like most WiFi services, it will support a limited number of users at any one time and there will be some ‘black spots’. The equipment can only ‘point’ to certain places and there will be some gaps and weaker signals in some areas.
The City aims to provide the best (open space) coverage area possible for this precinct but cannot guarantee coverage especially indoor coverage and the signals may not reach into the far back areas of some cafes and shops. All wireless services are susceptible to interference such as competing wireless networks, immutable obstacles (certain walls and building materials) and casual disruptions that occur day-to-day (electrical equipment being used nearby).
We welcome feedback from users regarding these so we can tweak the service. If you wish to provide feedback, please email: mail@vincent.wa.gov.au
For full terms and conditions of use, please see further below.
Access Leederville’s free WiFi
Simply search on your device for WiFi networks and select ‘FreeVincentWiFi’. Once connected, open the web browser and select “Agree” to the terms and conditions.
If you are having problems connecting to this service please contact Acurix support on 1800 113 582.
Terms and conditions of use
Your continued use of the City of Vincent's free WiFi service means that you accept and agree to abide by the following terms and conditions.
Failure to agree to the terms and conditions
If you do not agree to these terms and conditions then you need to stop using this service now.
Your conduct
As a condition of your use of the City of Vincent's free WiFi service, you will not use the City of Vincent's free WiFi service for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms and conditions.
The City of Vincent's free WiFi service is a free service available to everyone. We ask that you respect others and not make excessive demands on the limited bandwidth by downloading or uploading large files, including video streaming. If you do so, your access to the City of Vincent's free WiFi service could be terminated.
You also agree to:
- Consider your personal privacy and that of others by not including personal information about yourself or others in public places.
- Express your own views and opinions and not to impersonate any person or entity.
- Treat people as you want to be treated and not use the City of Vincent's free WiFi service to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise offend others.
- Not to download, publish, distribute, email, transmit or disseminate any material which is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, indecent, offensive or inappropriate.
- Not to use any automated scripting tools or software.
- Not to engage in or promote any surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, unsolicited emailing or spamming.
- Not to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available using the City of Vincent's free WiFi service any material that you do not have a right to make available under any law or contractual obligation or which contains viruses, or other computer codes, files or programs designed to interrupt, limit or destroy the functionality of other computer software or hardware.
- Not to breach any applicable laws or regulations.
The City of Vincent has no obligation to monitor any user's use of the service. However, the City of Vincent retains the right at all times to monitor, retain and disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.
Security of system for online banking
The City of Vincent's free WiFi service is a normal public open network, and no liability is accepted by the City of Vincent for the security of information exchanged over it. Each user must decide personally and accept full responsibility if they wish to undertake transactions such as online banking, provision of credit card details to third parties or other sensitive information.
Applicable law
These conditions and all other specific and additional terms which govern your use or access to the City of Vincent's free WiFi service will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Western Australia and the Commonwealth of Australia.
Access and updates to The City of Vincent's free WiFi service
The City of Vincent's free WiFi service may change or discontinue any feature of the service including features, hours of availability and equipment required for access.
The City of Vincent's free WiFi service may change and update these terms and conditions at any time.
You are responsible for ensuring that you regularly review these terms and conditions. Your continued use of the City of Vincent's free WiFi service after any such changes are made will be deemed to constitute your acceptance of those changes.
Privacy
The City of Vincent is committed to your privacy.
No personal details are collected by users accessing the City of Vincent's free WiFi service. The only time the City of Vincent collects personal details is if you provide them when you contact us. We will only use them to reply to you.