Crap coffee meets crap interent #
Posted Monday 20th April 2009 12:58 GMT
I'm assuming that they will be profiling all openzone traffic with Phorm? Yet another reason to avoid starbucks.
Posted Monday 20th April 2009 12:58 GMT
I'm assuming that they will be profiling all openzone traffic with Phorm? Yet another reason to avoid starbucks.
Posted Monday 20th April 2009 12:58 GMT
That'll be a skinny latte with extra Phorm, then ...
Posted Monday 20th April 2009 15:27 GMT
BT auto-updated our Business Broadband router a while ago. I checked the settings as soon as they had done it. The OpenZone facility was switched _off_. We would have had to have opted _in_ in order to enable it as a hotspot.
Maybe earlier versions of the update had it on by default, but that was not our experience.
Posted Monday 20th April 2009 15:30 GMT
One hitch is that you need to be topped up with O2's PAYG mobile BB to get wifi access, and with https://mobilebroadbandaccess.o2.co.uk/ having currently gone on its holidays thats easier said that done!!
Posted Monday 20th April 2009 17:20 GMT
I quite like starbucks... not world-class coffee... but better than a greasy spoon cafe... and now I get the interwebs faster on my iphone at the same times!!... I'm quite glad I switched to o2 really - auto-logging into hotspots works so much easier than tmobile ever did(nt)...
I get better connectivity at work too, seems we have an o2 mast in countryside and tmobile didn't, which prompted the switch in the first place! :)
I may be the only person in the world who's had nothing but a positive experience with o2 if comments from previous threads are anything to go by... add to this I'm actually impressed with my recent Virgin Media installation and I think hell has finally frozen over!!
Posted Monday 20th April 2009 17:20 GMT
I'll have and Americana with NO Phorm of cream on top.
Posted Monday 20th April 2009 17:20 GMT
I'll be able to take my son to starbucks rather than McDs in the future, do they do kiddy meals?
Posted Tuesday 21st April 2009 05:12 GMT
Personally, the best coffee I have ever had -- and that's saying a lot -- has been in greasy spoons, specifically one in Brighton (ironically right next door to a Starbucks) where I get free refills and a *real* mug, not a crap paper cup, all for the princely sum of 90 pence.
Coffee snobbery is very counter-productive. Greasy spoons (true ones) rule.
Posted Tuesday 21st April 2009 09:46 GMT
Personally, I'll avoid any outlet where they still charge for wifi. There are planty enough free ones around so I tend to avoid *$
Any why is it, you can go to just about any airport abroad and get it free where in good old blighty, you have to pay through the nose?
Another example of rip-off brittain!!!!
Posted Tuesday 21st April 2009 17:38 GMT
Ha ha - quite funny as I was coming in to make a comment with the exact same title (modulo the spelling mistake).
Posted Saturday 25th April 2009 23:08 GMT
Err, adamski... I have no idea what you're going on about when it comes to airport WiFi. Most foreign ones don't seem to have it at all!
London City = free. Amsterdam Schipol = bloody expensive.
Where've you been flying?!
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