Well I actually found a Starbucks (I don't stop at these types of places normally) because my Daughter needed a book at the adjacent bookstore. They had a big ol' T-Mobile Hotspot sticker on the door so I went in and looked around. After a moment or two, I engaged the manager in conversation, asking him if the Hotspot ever had any usage.
He gave a big laugh and said that no it hadn't. As a matter of fact, customers were complaining about it being there and about the cost to use it, if they ever wanted to. I told him about the Atlantafreenet.org project and he thought it was a grand idea, and that it was great that there were some "little guys" doing it too. Of course with the costs basically coming from out of our pockets right now, there will be little chance of his customers seeing one of our nodes, but there's hope. He did say there was a T1 and a router in the back room, along with the access point. I believe that the T-mobile access point project is pretty much destined to fail (or be scaled down) due to excessive cost of bandwidth. A T1 is way overkill for what they need to be doing. You can tell that T-Mobile doesn't have any WiFi experience. I work for a Fortune 100 Company with over 50,000 employees. Our ENTIRE Internet connection was 1/2 a T1 and just moved to a full one several months ago. The Starbucks guy thought it would be a hoot for an adjoining business to put up a free access point (or for a mobile access point car to sit out front for a while). -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
