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March 14, 2004

Ann Arbor coffee shops with internet

For this posting I'll need a bunch of help, but it's worth a try.

Where are all of the places that you can sit down with your laptop and have a cup of coffee in Ann Arbor, and if you do that how much will you pay for the coffee and how much for the internet link? (And how well will the net link work?

Some off the top of my head:
- ERC Main St: free Internet, 3 Internet connected Macs with no ssh
- ERC S. Main St: free Internet
- ERC State St: free Internet, several Internet Macs with no ssh
- Cafe Ambrosia: 5 or 6 access points visible, none sponsored by venue
- Eastern Accents: ? internet, and you'd rather have a lovely pot of tea
- Borders downtown: T-Mobile internet
- Cosi: some chain internet, don't know which
- Rendezvous Cafe; free Internet, open late
- Cafe Zola: open wifi, through upstairs neighbors? crepes
- Sweetwaters Cafe: "too bad the internet connection disappeared"
- ERC North Campus: open wifi, $1 coffee refills
- Kinko's S. State St: T-mobile internet, awful machine coffee, more copiers than you'd ever need
- Mallett's Creet Branch Library: open wifi, machine coffee in front foyer, free net use computers with no ssh

This is mostly a placeholder, it will require some fieldwork (and it really calls out for having a good wiki instead of a blog but oh well not quite yet ready for that).

Revised 4/3/2004 with comments included (thanks!).

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Cafe Zola: open WiFi (not sure if it's theirs or the upstairs neighbors'); one can eat a nice crepe, of course

Rendezvous Cafe: Free Internet

too bad the net at sweetwater's disappeared

ERC Pierpont Commons: Free internet. (open WAP)

Coffee is $1 if you bring your own cup and call it a refill. The downtown ERCs have, in the past, charged me for the size closest to my cup (a medium) and knocked off $0.25; North Campus charges the size for a small and knocks off $0.25. I think they're friendlier up here, too.

Alas, they're a little inconvenient for people who don't spend their days on North Campus.

You could link to a wiki page, say at Rocket00000 and just use it as a scrap note page. Start to show people what idea generation, brainstorming and data collection can look like outside the comment threading. :-)

http://joechip.net/brian/wiki/index.php/AnnArborInternetCafes?action=create

Something I thought I'd never see: a flyer posted up on a lamp post on Liberty St advertising free Wifi at Conor O'Neills. "Just bring your laptop and network card".

I'm guessing it's too crowded in there to geek out at night, but for an afternoon it might be fun.

The Whole Foods Cafe on Washtenaw now has
wifi

Thanks John. I id'd the Whole Foods wifi from their parking lot one night after they closed. In that same immediate area there's free wifi from Panera too.

Can I toss this info onto ArborWiki? (http://arborwiki.org)

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