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Slashdot | A Coffeeshop’s Weekends Without Wi-Fi
“Victrola Cafe and Art in Seattle is a popular coffeeshop that offers free Wi-Fi–except on the weekends. In an experiment, the cafe started shutting down its Wi-Fi network on Saturdays and Sundays after watching their culture erode: the shop became full (and was turning away customers) with six-to-eight hour Wi-Fi squatters, many of whom didn’t even purchase anything. Their second Sunday without Wi-Fi was one of their best revenue days in some time. I don’t propose a Wi-Fi (or free Wi-Fi) backlash, but it’s interesting how with some time under their belt, the clash of inward facing technology and outward facing culture hit these particular entrepreneurs’ limit.”
This spurred a thought. “I wonder if this would be possible in Australia”. A coffeeshop with free wifi internet access?
It would be easier in the US as they get more bandwidth for less. But will all the recent upgrades to ISP’s infrastructure and a lot of ISPs offering 2-8mb connection speeds this could be possible for the average cafe in Aus.
All that would be required would be a half decent range wifi AP, cheapish internet account and a server to handle the throttling. Make sure any user can only get a % of the bandwidth and only download so much. Thus not going over any quotas enforced by the ISP whichh will either cause shaping to occur or additional costs.
Hmmm might go buy a coffee shop now. Could make it a rather popular spot for geeks. :D