Alcona County Library provides free Internet access 24/7 at or near all of our Library Branches. Below is information with may be useful regarding our free WiFi Internet Access.
- All branches except Caledonia have free public WiFi Internet Access at their library branch accessible 24/7 (Free WiFi IS provided at Caledonia – but we provide it at the Caledonia Community Center building.
- The free public WiFi is accessible from outside the buildings
- All WiFi and Wired Internet Access IS filtered to block the following:
- Pornographic Content
- Gross/Tasteless Content (content with visualizations depicting murder, mutilation, death etc….)
- Phishing, spam, illegal, adware sites, and “parked” websites
- Viruses, known virus sites, known malware sites
- Pirated media sites (illegal downloading of music, movies, software, etc…)
- Proxy Anonymizer sites/software
- We cannot “turn off” filtering for you.
- If you have a software on your computer that tries to “anonymize” (hide) your device or bypass our filtering system – your connection to the Internet content will fail – all Internet IS forced to flow through our filtering.
- Staff can only verify WiFi and internet access is working, and cannot help you with technical issues for your device beyond instructions for connecting to our Public WiFi SSID.
- Due to many conditions (Weather, power, provider issues, high numbers of simultaneous users, bandwidth limits, issue with your device, etc…). Public WiFi is NOT GUARANTEED!
- Reports from WiFi log files are checked early every morning:
- ANY device recognized to have virus or malware from traffic patterns will be blocked from even connecting to any library WiFi access point until the patron resolves the issue with their device!
- ANY device recognized to repeatedly ATTEMPT to bypass our filtering systems (even unsuccessfully), will be blocked from even connecting to any library WiFi access point!
- ANY device recognized to repeatedly ATTEMPT to visit pornographic, gross/tasteless, or illegal sites/content (even unsuccessfully), will be blocked from even connecting to any library WiFI access point.