does Charité hospital have WIFI?

yeah honestly the wifi at Charite is kinda a gamble. I had a friend admitted to Campus Virchow last year and they could barely get a signal in their room, but the cafeteria area worked fine. if you're gonna be stuck in a bed for a while, I'd just grab a prepaid SIM with data from somewhere like Aldi Talk or Congstar before you go in. the hospital network is fine for checking emails or whatsapp but forget about anything heavy

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ngl the wifi situation depends a lot on which building you're in. Campus Benjamin Franklin in Steglitz has decent coverage on the lower floors because they use repeaters, but Campus Mitte's old building is basically a faraday cage. if you're getting admitted to a station on the 3rd floor or higher at Mitte, just assume you'll be offline most of the time

a friend of mine was there last month and ended up using the public hotspot from the Deutsche Telekom network that pops up in the courtyard area. you can buy a 24-hour pass for like 5 euros if you don't want to mess with a SIM. might be worth having that as a fallback if your phone supports it

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I've been to Charite a few times visiting friends and the wifi is technically there but it's pretty hit or miss. The public network tends to get overloaded during daytime hours, especially in the main buildings on Campus Mitte. If you're in a smaller ward or a quieter floor early in the morning, you'll probably get a connection, but don't count on streaming anything. I'd download whatever you need before you go in, or bring a mobile hotspot if your phone plan allows it.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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