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Comment by eddylu | Hacker News Reader

Funny, I just wrote a blog post yesterday about our extreme bootstrapping ways at Starbucks titled "Two Guys One Cup". We have free wifi because one of us has AT&T DSL at home (and you can log in with multiple laptops at the same time) and we sometimes bring seat cushions to make the chairs more comfortable. http://grubwithus.blogspot.com

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You can get free wifi at starbucks without any AT&T setup at home. The steps:

- buy a starbucks gift card ($5 minimum)

- register the giftcard online

- use the registration info when prompted when you connect to the network at SBUX.

- you must make at least one purchase each month on the giftcard, e.g. a tall coffee for $1.50.

- you can only use two MAC addresses on that card. Otherwise they'll lock your account, but you can call and get it unlocked.

- with said giftcard you also get free refills and free flavorings of some type too, even if you don't use the giftcard to buy the coffee in the first place.

I go to starbucks pretty much every day and that's how I get online there.

Isn't there supposed to be a two hour limit? That's what AT&T/Starbucks claims, anyway...

http://www.starbucks.com/retail/wireless.asp

On session per day, limited to 2 hours.

https://www.starbucks.com/cardrewards/default.asp

That's the stated policy, but it hasn't been my experience. I've done many days at waaay over 2 hours.

You might find this entertaining, if you have not already seen it.

171 Starbucks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwYxuV2dVzw

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