[Rooftops] WiFi = MoFo

[Jim Youll]

found on f'dcompany.com when i should have been writing code.


Wi-Fi = Mo-Fo
Posted by: Derek Zoolaunder
Jul 01 2003 12:39AM EST

So I read that Starbucks has Wi-Fi "hot spots". Cool. I crank up my 
desktop PC and surf on over to www.starbucks.com on my DS&L 
connection. Then I get my laptop, which is totally configured for 
wireless, and boot it up, not more than three feet away from the 
desktop and the DSL modem. No wireless signal detected.

Borders Books has Wi-Fi hot spots, too, so the paper says. Great. I 
click on over to borders.com on the desktop machine, but my laptop 
still detects no wireless signal.

So I finally realize I'm a doofus and that I have to go to a Borders 
STORE to use Wi-Fi. Five seconds later I'm at www.bordersstores.com 
-- I find a Borders in my neighborhood, and I'm sitting on the web 
page with a PICTURE of the damned store on it, but still no wireless 
signal on the laptop. And the web page clearly states that this store 
has Wi-Fi hot spots.

Hell, maybe they took the picture of that store before it even had 
Wi-Fi installed there, but that's not my problem, and it's still 
false advertising.

Now I read that Barnes and Noble will be offering Wi-Fi service. 
Yeah, right. I'm not falling for that again.

Wi-Fi is a load of bull. T-Mobile sucks it.