Getting free hotel internet connections

Recently I stayed at a hotel that offered broadband connections in each hotel room. You simply plugged the network cable into your laptop, accept the terms and conditions that appear in your web browser and they begin charging you. I was charged about 68 cents a minute, which would be near enough to 30 cents in the US I guess.

However, I was wondering if it was possible to do something to bypass all of this and get the connection for free?

Sure, depends on the hotel chain though. Sometimes it's a matter of tweaking the actual address that appears in your browser. Other times you have to look closely at the source of the page itself. PHP is usually pretty easy.

Hmmm, sounds too technical for me