{"id":8001,"date":"2009-06-24T16:44:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/hungry_for_better_wifi.html"},"modified":"2009-06-24T16:44:03","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T16:44:03","slug":"hungry-for-better-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/hungry-for-better-wifi.html","title":{"rendered":"Hungry for Better WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline;\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"334\" width=\"500\" style=\"\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/hungry.jpg\" alt=\"hungry.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Broadband connectivity &#8211; it has become like air to me. I suffocate when I don&#8217;t have it and the faster the broadband access I have, the better I feel. So when I enter a restaurant and the WiFi is on but locked I just go crazy. I have become so accustomed to having fast broadband access everywhere, I just can&#8217;t understand when a restaurant doesn&#8217;t provide it. Worse yet is having a WiFi signal with an SSID with the name of a restaurant and a locked signal.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurant owners are better off leaving the ID as Linksys or Netgear or just making something up like &#8220;Have a nice day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recently my travel department was instructed by me that my flights must all have WiFi on them. That means I cancelled flights I would have taken on American Airlines and JetBlue in favor of Virgin America because with this carrier, WiFi is guaranteed. Of course this applies to domestic flights for now.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, WiFi is now more important to me than frequent flyer miles. Who would have thought? Wow!<\/p>\n<p>I see this trend eventually hitting restaurants. Already, TMC group lunches where work needs to be done typically take place where WiFi is available.<\/p>\n<div>Do you want WiFi where you eat and fly? What do you think?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Broadband connectivity &#8211; it has become like air to me. I suffocate when I don&#8217;t have it and the faster the broadband access I have, the better I feel. So when I enter a restaurant and the WiFi is on but locked I just go crazy. I have become so accustomed to having fast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,168,171,180,172,196,199,188,118,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}