Friday, August 18, 2006

Wirelessly winging it on the wild side

Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar
1806 NW Chipman Road (north side of Chipman, two blocks west of U. S. 50), Lee's Summit

802.11g
SSID: harborlink

Surprisingly, although increasing numbers of these franchise operations are showing up in Wi-Fi directories all over, it appears no one's bothered to check out any of metro KC's five locations (the others are in Raytown, Independence, Overland Park and Olathe). Well, at least this one's unwired.

Bring at least one fully-charged battery with you, because there aren't any power outlets to be had as far as I can see. Signal strength is also rather on the low side (it's got me throttled down to 36 MBPS right now), and because there's an acceptable use policy page you've got to click through to get onto the 'Net, disconnecting due to signal loss can become a bit frustrating. (And if anyone on the network administration side at this outfit is reading this, your network really needs to lose its extremely annoying habit of taking users back to your homepage at inopportune moments. Take it from one of those users-that gets very old very fast.)

On the plus side, the shaded windows make for a very LCD-friendly lighting situation.

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