Comment by gzread
8 hours ago
Do you feel coffee shop WiFi should require you to scan your passport to connect, or that it shouldn't exist at all?
8 hours ago
Do you feel coffee shop WiFi should require you to scan your passport to connect, or that it shouldn't exist at all?
Not OP, but the latter sounds pretty good actually, yeah. Never understood the free WiFi craze anyways. Just use cellular?
Not all of us have cell plans with hotspots ($$$), hotspots often have data caps, cell is often slower or congested, and there are some areas without cell signal. It's also kind of silly from a wider perspective to shove everyone onto the cellular network when most businesses have perfectly decent fiber internet nowadays.
Sure, I'm usually on hotspot, but I personally appreciate when businesses have wifi. Either way, there are always going to be shared networks somewhere.
What we should actually be doing is WiFi using SIM cards as authentication.
Have it count against your data cap (but make it much cheaper than cellular data). Pay part of that revenue to hotspot-owning businesses. If something bad happens, use the logs that telecoms are already required to keep.
It's very strange to me that we don't have something like this already.
And you should require your passport to get one of those?
ID card you mean ;)) Yes, and we already do.