The Redwood Cafe in Cotati has free wireless Internet access, at least for now, plans to make it non-free are I’m sure coming.
Actually, funny story; I was in there a few weekends ago, and I had purchased a cappuccino and was busily surfing away. An hour or so goes by, and I’m done with my coffee, but I’m still surfing, and I’ve got my laptop plugged into a power outlet too.
Well I start to get this feeling like I’m being watched, and it really felt like people were eyeballing me. I paid it no mind and continued to surf. That is until I saw one of the owners eyeball me. He walked to the back of the restaurant, and then all of a sudden my connection dropped, and I could tell that I had lost the signal. Then he came back out and the signal was back again.
Now maybe I’m just being paranoid, but it sure felt like the guy went back there and rebooted the router in an attempt to get me to stop using up his power. Now I could certainly understand his (possible) concern, but I would have appreciated it much more had he just come up to me and talked to me about it.
Update: (2004-26-04 15:40)
I found out the AP is above the register at the front, so I was probably just being overly paranoid.
Does A’roma still have free wireless? They did when I was there around January, but one day it didn’t work. The staff said that they didn’t have it available because they had no way to make people pay for it, and I pointed out that I’d been using it for weeks. It struck me that that was possibly the beginning of the end.
Last time I heard it was still free. Why don’t you join the orkut community for Aroma’s and ask.
hey augie, just so you know this site is the second to come up when you search for redwood cafe on google
-Nat W.
HEY!
MY RELATIVES OWN THIS CAFE, SO DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO POST BAD REVIEWS!!