The importance of wifi

I made a commitment at one stage to be sat in a bar at least once every other week and sit and write a blog post. Well, here I am, finally, sat in the funky buddah in cardiff contemplating the world, life and well… my bottle of Peroni.

It’s a strange experience really being sat in public with a thirteen hundred pound laptop and a three pound bottle of beer with the capacity to kill it if one of the locals gets rowdy.
?However, the funky buddah does not have the joy of free wifi. although the downside is that BTOpenzone is available. Why is that a downside? Well with the number of places that are offering free wifi or minimal cost wifi options, BTOpenzone is a frustratingly expensive product, especially for it being a 512kb connection and horrendously slow and notoriously buggy.

In fact my own experiences of BTOpenzone were that it failed to recognise I had disconnected and proceeded to use all of my minuets and money in one fell swoop when I had actually only gotten about 30 second use off of it.

But is wifi now at the stage that it’s a neccesity rather than a luxury or gimmic? With more and more phones using wifi I really do wonder how many people find themselves checking their facebook or twitter or indeed any other webpage on their phones when they are out. I know I do, but then I am indeed a bit of a geek.

Now notwithstanding the potential for people and students with laptops and students and all of the other people that actually need wifi. I for one am starting to think that it’s now a requirement that places offer free wifi, especially as social networking gets bigger and better.