Starbucks Wi-Fi

I‘ve always heard about the Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks, it seemed to me it was one of their top selling points next to their coffee. Come to Starbucks, get a coffee, some sort of pastries, and enjoy our Free WiFi. Well, as I’m typing this in Starbucks I can’t connect to the internet. I bought my coffee, I’m sitting in they’re store, but I can’t connect. They want me to pay $3.99 for 2 hours of time. I don’t know about you but that doesn’t sound like Free to me. Maybe I’m wrong or just misinformed, but I thought Starbucks offed free Wi-Fi.

I found out about my horrible disconnect when I tried to log into my admin area to write a post about my trip to Washington, MO(see tomorrows post). I found a free, unsecure Wi-Fi connection but low and behold, I can’t connect to anything but the “Pay Me For WiFi Starbucks Page”. Bummer. Serves me right for trying to go get work done outside of my house.

I did find a section on the Starbucks site that says if you have an iPhone or AT&T U-Verse Service you can connect. I have both but can’t connect using either link. Maybe I need the internet to access the pages, but it seems to me that they are dead links.

Luckily I can still get some work done while I sit here by typing into Microsoft Word, and can just queue the posts up this evening when I get home. And Starbucks will stay just a normal overpriced, but good, coffee house that is nice to sit in if you like listening to the Beatles.

After getting home a doing a little more research, I found that the Free Wi-Fi is actually only 2 free hours a month with a registered Starbucks Card. On the same page I found a few more pieces of information about free Wi-Fi for AT&T customers but no link or way of finding out more.

Either way, free or paid, I will continue to visit Starbucks multiple times a week for the only reason I ever go back to Starbucks for, their coffee. I’m sure it’s not the greatest coffee in the world and it’s definitely not the cheapest, but I enjoy it and I will gladly pay $2.15 for a large black Starbucks coffee.

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