Comments on: Free Starbucks WiFi Launching Tuesday

By: Jonah

Jonah — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:07:23 +0000

I think its great! Panera Bread’s wifi seems to go in and out with my laptop… could just be on my end though. And since I pay for DSL through at&t, i get unlimited access. And in my area, it has brought a significant amount of customers in. But yes, Panera Bread (especially on sundays) is usually full of people with laptops, iphones, and blackberry’s

By: coolglow

coolglow — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:57:52 +0000

They are desperate to keep the traffic going in their stores, nice method , pretty smart, ….

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:08:19 +0000

This sounds great, it certainly can’t cost much for them, but I heard that Starbucks is now switching to AT&T… I suppose that is how they are getting around T-Mobile’s paid system; maybe T-Mobile’s system will have to coexist with AT&T’s until the contract with T-Mobile has ended. As long as the contract doesn’t specify that T-Mobile must be the ONLY wi-fi service that Starbucks offers, then I don’t see how they can be sued over it.

Andrew’s comment about firewall software is to be taken seriously, I use the free version of ZoneAlarm on my laptop.

By: Samantha Pruitt

Samantha Pruitt — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:49:46 +0000

this is a great way to get people going back to Starbucks, ever since gas has been ridiculously high people have been deciding that they rather go to work than buy a cup of coffee (that’s probably a good thing.) I always thought Starbucks was being cheap for not offering free wi-fi.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:12:56 +0000

People,
Do not forget to take care of security in your PC. If you are going to use your laptop in Starbucks or any public WiFi place, make sure you have added firewall (lot of security experts will tell you that the Windows* firewall alone will not cut it.) *Windows XP comes with a firewall, you would think Vista does to.

By: Dano

Dano — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:27:25 +0000

I know the woman in the above pic!!! I went to high school with her, and as far as I know she’s still an employee of Starbucks. I don’t think she serves coffee, but I think she works in the corporate arena.

By: Andrew Harmon

Andrew Harmon — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:48:20 +0000

The free WiFi at Starbucks is a great idea for them but they should have thought a bit more about the implementation. Apparrently a large portion of the Starbucks are still using T-Mobiles gear that was installed from their WiFi offering. T-Mobile is now suing Starbucks over this. Basically they just started offering free WiFi using T-Mobiles equipment. Be Interesting to see how that suit turns out.

By: James Rose

James Rose — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:14:30 +0000

I tried logging on at my local Starbucks. They have free accees, but so does MacDonalds across the street. MaDonalds signal was far stronger! At Macdonalds, Starbucks signal was not found.