South County Cafe Crawl: It's been a beautiful weekend, and I even managed to get out of the house. This morning, while Joan and I were heading down to the tennis courts at URI to knock some tennis balls around (I wouldn't call it playing yet, since we don't keep score and I can't sustain a volley very long without twisting my ankle or hitting the ball out of the court), I got the idea to go from cafe to cafe, take some photos, and do some wireless (CDMA and GPRS) performance measurements (signal strength, sustained download speed, traceroute output, etc.)
I'm pretty sure that there are no cafes down here with Wi-Fi, but maybe a survey like this would give people some ideas. South County is positively beautiful, especially this time of year, and the past decade or so has seen an emergence of some decent coffeeshops down here. Now all I need is some decent connectivity when I'm out of the house.
Even a local like me misses a couple of cafes, and I was surprised to see a new(?) one last night when Joan and I were returning from drinking margaritas on the deck of Hanson's Landing; I don't remember the name of it (damn tequila), but it was Java something, and it was right in the Salt Pond marina area. So, here's my incomplete list:
- Sophie's on Route 2
- 193 Degrees at the URI Memorial Union
- Bagelz in the Kingston Emporium
- Eclectibles on Robinson Street
- that place I just noticed near Salt Pond
- Wickford Gourmet
If you have any additions, please send them on to me and I'll update the list (and if you know of any Wi-Fi enabled Cafes down here, you'd be making my day/week/month/year). If you want to join me for the crawl, let me know. I plan to do it sometime this week (May 12th-16th), because I only have my CDMA loaner card from Sprint for another two weeks. I'm actually hoping that there will be enough places I didn't know about that I'll need to span two days with this project :-)
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