As for free wi-fi I've always had pretty good luck at IHOP but that seems to be regional as to if it has it or not...
I can just tether my laptop to my phone via bluetooth now so I don't worry about it so much
Looking forward to this program... manually updating addons is stupid. I'm just thankful for the RSS feed for your favorites so that I don't have to go check all of them manually. I've pretty much stopped using any addons that I can't find on here or on wowmatrix. (I.E. hosted only on curse - do not approve of their business practices)