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05/27/2005 Archived Entry: "Victrola's Wi-Fi-Free on Weekends"

Free Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi-Free are not the same thing.

Victrola is a pleasant espresso place a few blocks from where I used to live on Capitol Hill. They've turned off free Wi-Fi on weekend days because Wi-Fi campers were changing the culture of the place, by not interacting with other people (and by not buying much of anything). I've visited Victrola a few times, but not often enough to testify about the culture there (we usually went to Insomniax because it was closer and we wanted to keep it open).

I found this story by poking around the Technorati tag page for Seattle; a Slashdot post pointing to Glenn Fleishman's Wi-Fi Networking News was linked on Delicious.

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