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Tuesday, August 19, 2003

Let's talk wireless. Or lack thereof.

So we spent last week in the hellish land of 6A traffic lovely Cape Cod town of Chatham. Also known as "the land of no internet." Well, OK, there are 15-minute terminals in the library that appear to run at approximately 25mhz & share a single 56k dialup line. And there's ONE "internet café" with a semi-broken PC sitting in the corner. And there's a girl working in the Barnes & Noble in Hyannis who *thinks* there's a Starbucks in Mashpee (don't get me started) that might have an AirPort network, but they don't have a phone book there to look up the number. Not that it would help, since the phone books on Cape Cod are inexplicably missing the numbers for *just about every business you might be interested in visiting.*

I just don't get it. A DSL or cable connection is like $40 a month and wireless routers are so cheap they're practically free at this point. The entire town of Chatham is full of absolute fucking tools yuppie scum laden with gadgets upwardly mobile types lugging laptops. Why isn't there free wireless on the town green? Why don't those little coffee shops that are completely empty all day except for the 45 minute mid-afternoon tourist-rush-en-route-to-the-beach make a little tech investment? It's frickin' ridiculous is what it is.

Maybe I'm just a spoiled New Yorker who is used to having at least 2 open, unsecured wireless nodes available at any given time in any given spot. Oh yeah, that's right, I am.

Posted at 09:30 AM

Comments

001. Alex

I grew up in Chatham. Uggh.

Posted at 11:00PM on Tuesday, August 19, 2003

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