Jun 02 2009
Free WiFi – No Internet
On my way to bell ringing practice last night I happen to pick up a screw (easy tiger!) in one of my car tyres. So during my lunch today I took the car into my local Target Auto Parts store to get the puncture fixed.
Whilst I was waiting I did what I normally do with my spare time and whipped out my trusty iPhone to catch up with Google Reader/Podcasts/Twitter/games. I’m sure you can imagine my joy to find that there is a wifi access point at Target which is open to the public. I’m sure you can also imagine my devastation to find that, once connected to the wifi network I couldn’t access the internet.
I spent the next 20 minutes playing around with the iPhones wifi settings, MobileTerminal and Safari trying to access the wireless router to see if I could “fix” it. Result: FAIL!
So here is a plea to all companies that require customers to sit around twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to get a job done: please, Please, PLEASE, if you’re going to tempt us with an open wifi access point, please follow through and provide access to the internet. It really doesn’t cost that much and we’ll be much happier to come back next time!
Maybe it was your iPhone and not Target’s wifi system.
iPhone isn’t perfect.
That said, why do Brits and their brethren say “Whilst”? Americans say “while”.
While I was waiting for the tires to get fixed on my car, I caught up on old email and IM’d my boss.
Also, it looks like you have gone back to Google; no more Bing for you? I am continuing to use Bing; I stopped using Google several months after switching to Bing for a trial period; I liked it so much, that I just decided to keep using Bing for all my searching.
Besides, I was growing tired of Google’s blank white screen. Now I have Bing as my home page and each day I get greeted with a different pic that allow me to learn about new places and things in addition to searching.