Home away from home...
Mar. 12th, 2009 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vixaliciousSo I'm out and about in Decatur today, trying to find a suitable location for those days when I attempt to work at an internet cafe. This has been harder to do than I thought it would be, just in general.
Places I've tried:
Joe's Coffee Shop in East Atlanta
Love, love this place! So you would think this would be a short list, right? No. It's funky, it's busy, it's reasonably quiet. Tons of comfy seating, tons of plug ins. UNFORTUNATELY... their wi-fi is iffy. Sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes I can't stay on it at all. It's not just me - the last time I was in there everyone was having trouble. The building is old and so is the wiring, and it's next door to a bank, so between the vault wall and the brick building, there's not much cell reception.
Panera Bread in... um. Tucker, maybe? Off LaVista.
This was my go to place until Tuesday. Lots of plug ins, good cell reception, quiet atmosphere, decent food, and then a couple of comfy chairs in the back if you're fast enough to grab one. The problem? They've instituted a couple of new wi-fi policies - 1) only 30 minutes of access between 11:30 and 1:30 - which I get, and doesn't actually bother me. I'm usually eating at this time, and I get that it's their peak business time. I didn't get there til 12:45, so it wasn't a big deal. 2) And this is the showstopper - they time out your connection every 30 minutes. So when I'm all dialed into my customer's site? Yeah, that's a problem.
Atlanta Bread Company, Downtown Decatur
Wifi is good, but... atmosphere sucks, chairs are uncomfortable, there is as far as I can tell only one outlet in the whole joint, and it's too hard to park.
Next up on my list to try: Java Monkey (next door to ABC), Caribou Coffee (Edgewood Plaza)
Any locals on my flist have any other suggestions?
ETA: Java Monkey, also a no-go. I might try it again another day, but I just wasn't feeling the vibe, plus they let people smoke on their patio and it stunk the whole place up.
Places I've tried:
Joe's Coffee Shop in East Atlanta
Love, love this place! So you would think this would be a short list, right? No. It's funky, it's busy, it's reasonably quiet. Tons of comfy seating, tons of plug ins. UNFORTUNATELY... their wi-fi is iffy. Sometimes it works perfectly, sometimes I can't stay on it at all. It's not just me - the last time I was in there everyone was having trouble. The building is old and so is the wiring, and it's next door to a bank, so between the vault wall and the brick building, there's not much cell reception.
Panera Bread in... um. Tucker, maybe? Off LaVista.
This was my go to place until Tuesday. Lots of plug ins, good cell reception, quiet atmosphere, decent food, and then a couple of comfy chairs in the back if you're fast enough to grab one. The problem? They've instituted a couple of new wi-fi policies - 1) only 30 minutes of access between 11:30 and 1:30 - which I get, and doesn't actually bother me. I'm usually eating at this time, and I get that it's their peak business time. I didn't get there til 12:45, so it wasn't a big deal. 2) And this is the showstopper - they time out your connection every 30 minutes. So when I'm all dialed into my customer's site? Yeah, that's a problem.
Atlanta Bread Company, Downtown Decatur
Wifi is good, but... atmosphere sucks, chairs are uncomfortable, there is as far as I can tell only one outlet in the whole joint, and it's too hard to park.
Next up on my list to try: Java Monkey (next door to ABC), Caribou Coffee (Edgewood Plaza)
Any locals on my flist have any other suggestions?
ETA: Java Monkey, also a no-go. I might try it again another day, but I just wasn't feeling the vibe, plus they let people smoke on their patio and it stunk the whole place up.
