Comments on: Starbucks now has free wireless

By: harrimac

harrimac — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:02:49 +0000

i’m not a big starbucks fan but this is similar to caribou coffee’s deal. caribou offers 2 hours of wireless as long as you make a purchase over like 2 bucks or something. but you have to keep buying if you need longer access. many of the fast food restaurants here offer “free” wifi and even the laundromats. something about greasy restaurant and laptop that doesn’t go together. caribou also has something that blocks you from accessing our campus wireless system while you’re in their store (i’m on an urban campus and have an extremely strong wireless signal from campus building but can’t connect to it). however i can just go to bruegger’s bagels and mooch all i want.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:36:55 +0000

I think that some McDonald’s here have free wireless, but I have an adversion to mixing work with my chicken nuggets!

There’s nothing like Dunkin Donut’s Iced Coffee - even Starbucks can’t touch it!

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By: Dougal

Dougal — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:34:16 +0000

I was at Mc Donald’s at saw that they now are offering free wi-fi but it to is for a limited time. I am here in Va but I am sure that it maybe national.

By: J David

J David — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:26:15 +0000

This is fantastic! I actually stopped going to Starbucks over this very issue. I always thought, why not give a paying customer some wi-fi love? Like temporary access with a network key that is time sensitive?

Well, now that a system is in place, I am going to have to go back and get my iced lattes there this summer (it is freakin hot here in Texas, at around 100 during the day; nothing like an iced coffee on those days…).

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By: Ellie

Ellie — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:25:05 +0000

Are there any internet cafes near you? I remember you saying that the internet there is sometimes spotty… but perhaps you can still get a cup of coffee and some free internet?!??!

By: RT Cunningham

RT Cunningham — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:14:01 +0000

Starbucks is a LONG way from here.

I just signed up for Odiogo. I have to wait for the feed resync though, after removing the feed entry header. Like someone’s going to listen to my domain name spelled out letter by letter!

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By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:23:05 +0000

Hey, I like your odiogo audio feed at the top of your blog posts! For a moment, I thought you were reading all your blog posts! But that’s really neat! I might get that for my own blog!

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By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:17:52 +0000

I will definitely check this tip out - but riddle me this - how do you change your browser’s user agent?

By: AskTheAdmin | Karl Gechlik

AskTheAdmin | Karl Gechlik — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:12:23 +0000

I use Starbucks WiFi daily but I’m not doing it on the up and up… Did you know you can change your browser’s user agent to:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3

This will get you free wifi in starbucks like you own an iPhone!

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