Comments on: Bucking Starbucks’ WiFi Pricing http://cluster.othermaps.com/bucking-starbucks-wifi-pricing mediated space etc. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:18:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: tim http://cluster.othermaps.com/bucking-starbucks-wifi-pricing/comment-page-1#comment-11 tim Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=68#comment-11 T-Mobile's service in the U.S. (primarily at Starbucks) went through the same free-cost curve. Now $40/month ... I assume unlimited bandwidth. At that price you at least have the potential to daisy chain links. Wonder whether there is a cost effective option at 5squids/hr ... you know, you hang out at Starbucks with your laptop acting as a wirless hub/router and sell off access for some reasonable amount. 10 hours, 50squids. 10 people costs 50p/hr, charge a quid/hr, make 50squids a day ... enough for a coffee a sandwich and cheap hotel. Your're travelling anyway .... Oh, and I like that you have a nice bright (LED?) sign on the back of your laptop screen advertising services. T-Mobile’s service in the U.S. (primarily at Starbucks) went through the same free-cost curve. Now $40/month … I assume unlimited bandwidth. At that price you at least have the potential to daisy chain links. Wonder whether there is a cost effective option at 5squids/hr … you know, you hang out at Starbucks with your laptop acting as a wirless hub/router and sell off access for some reasonable amount. 10 hours, 50squids. 10 people costs 50p/hr, charge a quid/hr, make 50squids a day … enough for a coffee a sandwich and cheap hotel. Your’re travelling anyway ….

Oh, and I like that you have a nice bright (LED?) sign on the back of your laptop screen advertising services.

]]> By: darrell http://cluster.othermaps.com/bucking-starbucks-wifi-pricing/comment-page-1#comment-12 darrell Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=68#comment-12 Hmm -- I haven't looked at the tech they are using for authentication and access control, but yes I can't really see any way they can stop you taking a mesh box in and sharing the connection out. Will stop in on Wardour street and log some packets to see -- lovely idea. Hmm — I haven’t looked at the tech they are using for authentication and access control, but yes I can’t really see any way they can stop you taking a mesh box in and sharing the connection out. Will stop in on Wardour street and log some packets to see — lovely idea.

]]> By: darrell http://cluster.othermaps.com/bucking-starbucks-wifi-pricing/comment-page-1#comment-13 darrell Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=68#comment-13 Looks like the turf wars are already happening -- see http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,446885,00.html -- some startup called Sip&Surf has been setting up hotspots that overlap with t-mobile's near Starbucks in the U.S... Looks like the turf wars are already happening — see http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,446885,00.html — some startup called Sip&Surf has been setting up hotspots that overlap with t-mobile’s near Starbucks in the U.S…

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