Has anybody else noticed the really odd setup at Spyhouse Coffee that I mentioned yesterday? Lots of Apples there. Maybe that is an Apple-preferred site and the oddness is a PC setup difference. The PC regular there who assisted me guessed that might be part of the story. Chuck > -----Original Message----- > From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org > [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Cole > > > FWIW, I tried Spyhouse Coffee at 24th & Nicollet yesterday and found it strange and > anomalous for 802.11b service. Their free service is WEP protected, and one must get > the connection info from a card posted over the straw dispenser by napkins, etc. A > regular there told me that the setup is a nuisance and it has frequent dropouts for no > apparent reason. The posted card says: > > password = spyhouse > code = 7BAB647AC753EEBF6F080DEEC2 > > I think they mean SSID = Spyhouse, and Key = ... (best to copy and paste > this long key > above since entry is blind and must be 100% correct). > > I experienced strangeness in connecting as well as unexplaind dropouts with > very strong > and seemingly constant signal level. This site seems to have many users, so the > dropouts may be due to some "active headcount" issues. > > Does anyone here go there often enough to know what's going on? The regular customer > that helped me believes the setup is naive and stumbling about. Perhaps the > "site guru" > at Spyhouse needs some TCWUG help. I'd like to see what somebody else thinks > about the > Spyhouse setup. > > Chuck _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list