Whoever came up with the business idea of trying to attract freeloaders?
Seriously.
Probably got a bonus for that great idea.
And these are the people that run the world...
But what about the trains, Willie ? What about the trains ?
Even McDonalds has WiFi, if they don’t and I want to read on-line, I’ll find someplace that does.
I am not a free loader there to get free internet although I see many who are in shops for that purpose.
The best laid plans of mice and men, often go astray.
This is a problem that's easily fixed by having each unique Mac address (that's the unique address for every network card in a computer) which has grabbed an IP address time out after say, 30 minutes. That's what most of the coffee and sandwich shops in the loop (Chicago) do and it works quite well. Can't nurse that cup of coffee all day anymore taking up room for PAYING customers that way.
Go to any Panera Bread in the Chicago area, you only get 30 minutes on their wireless in a 24 hour time period and I don't see them hurting for customers.
Yeah, it’s called budgetary spending cuts.......... =.=
Makes good business sense to me. If it is costing more to provide an incentive than the revenue it brings in, get rid of it.
But I suppose if I'm taking up a space of somebody that will spend more than me, so be it.
I sure as hell wouldn't want to spend enough time in a Starbuck's to justify surfing the web.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Internet child predators will have to go to the library to make their arrangements...
how gross that someone would spend 8 hours in a business establishment and purchase just one cup of coffee...
"We had big parties or family groups who wanted to eat but had no room," said Jean Paul Coupal, who runs the cafe with his mother, Nancy.The obvious white line down the middle of the road would be to offer the broadband during the later hours, when only the freeloaders (students for example) would be sitting around drinking coffee and surfing the web.
I've used used coffee shop band width before. The reason people hang out all day is because they are not getting decent speeds. Starbucks, for example, maxes you out at around 170k. At that speed it takes nearly a hour to download a one hour TV program.
I talked with the owner of a southwest coffee shop, and he said that some of the best entertainment you could get was a traveling Mexican mariachi. Unfortunately, most of them are old, and there are not many left. It doesn’t matter that they sing in Spanish, because they have the same depth as old style blues guitarists.
Ironically, most Mexicans don’t care for it much. But the fans love it.
He also tried the old Turkish idea of having a “reader”, with a high chair and podium, reading classical short stories. But that also needed a waitress, because customers didn’t want to miss the story to get new drinks.
Our local Starbuxx alternative provides you with a temporary 2-hour internet access code with purchase.
It's not rocket surgery.
wo0t