Etiquette checklist (EU airports & lounges)
If the lounge staff reboot the AP because your bag is thrashing uploads, you already lost the etiquette argument — earnings were never the point.
- Read the Wi‑Fi splash / terms once — many ban “servers,” P2P, and heavy background upload
- No spare laptop under the lounge sofa “just idle earning” while you shop duty-free — heat + fairness — exam-laptop-heat-vs-overnight-earn-2026
- Travel routers that rebroadcast lounge Wi‑Fi still share the terminal IP — hotel-lobby-wifi-earn-etiquette-europe-2026
- VPN-on-top-of-earn on airport Wi‑Fi often worsens bans — vpn-split-tunnel-vs-earn-app-bans-europe-2026, vpn-while-earning-online
- Hotspotting from lounge as a “workaround” hits mobile ToS — mobile-hotspot-tethering-vs-home-wifi-earn-tos-europe-2026
- Hotel / café / laundry SSIDs are different house rules — hotel-lobby-wifi-earn-etiquette-europe-2026, cafe-wifi-earn-etiquette-europe-2026
Safer places to leave earn running
Agreed home or dorm Wi‑Fi with roommate / landlord rules beats airport pools — dorm-wifi-earn-apps-europe-2026, roommate-house-rules-earn-apps-2026. ISP fair-use still applies at home — isp-fair-use-bandwidth-europe-2026.
Need privacy on lounge Wi‑Fi for browsing and banking? Use a VPN for your own traffic — and keep earn clients quit until you are back on an allowed residential network.
Tonight
If an earn client is running on airport/lounge Wi‑Fi now: quit it, note the SSID in your log, and only restart on a network whose AUP you already cleared. Hub: /guides/bandwidth-safety/. Start: /en/start/.