In case you missed it; The Press Democrat is reporting that “Windsor Town Green soon to become a WiFi hot spot“.
Windsor’s Town Green will become the first in the county to offer free public Wi-Fi access. Hopefully more towns will follow suit.
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.
Inn at the Tides in Bodega Bay has wireless internet access in thier rooms. They don’t advertise it, or make any mention at all of it, but it’s there and it’s ten dollars for twelve hours.
