Another Dispatch From The Free Wi-Fi Front

I dare you to repeat the title of this post 10 times, fast.
I don’t know how I missed this since I walk by it all the time, but on my way to the Hilton Poker Room yesterday I noticed a group of people (pictured above) huddled over laptop computers at the Fortuna Coffee Shop in the lobby of the Las Vegas Hilton.
Almost nobody was drinking coffee, and the shop employees didn’t seem to care a bit.
I decided to rudely interrupt a lady that was looking at a giant picture of an avocado on her laptop screen. Am I joking? No, she was just staring at a picture of a large avocado that she had pulled up in her web browser. Whatever …
So I asked her what the shop charges for Wi-Fi.
“Nothing” she said, “That’s why I come here all the time, the wireless access is free”.
I thanked her, and left her to further scrutinize the avocado.
So basically, the lobby of the Las Vegas Hilton is now a free hotspot … because the Fortuna is in the lobby.
I don’t know if they do any content filtering, but I can say with 100% certainty that you will at least be able to research avocados.
And really, what more could you ask for?












On February 1st, 2007, kim said: