Wireless Wonderland at Hyper coffee

The day of the Wireless Wonderland is here at Hyper Coffee in Arcadia. After all of the “Trouble” I have been in getting the wireless network to be functional here at the desk of the Extremist, it has been a less than daunting task to do so on the road. Thankfully the IBM setup and ability to connect to the internet at public places has been a smooth process.

Two days ago I went up to Sierra Madre to check out Bean Town, SM’s famous coffee house. Their wireless free access was less than ideal for me running on my laptop at a mere 11 Mpbs. Maybe it was all of the wireless traffic that had me by the neck but I could not do any real work there due to the slow access times. Hyper Coffee in Arcadia is a different story altogether. First off, I can walk to the little cafe in five minutes, which is really great for starters. Second, their coffee is really terrific and lastly, the place is relatively quiet compared with other high profile coffee houses. This place is cozy and the access times are at 54 Mpbs which is really quick for a public place.

Down town Arcadia is not what you would describe as a thriving business climate for small entrepreneur’s. Arcadia has the Race Track and a Huge mall just a mile out of the down town area. Arcadia’s vision for its community has been upscale housing and focusing all of its business in the mall and race track area. First Street, which runs through the main down-town area is if I may say so, modest. If I were in an investing frame of mind, I would buy a couple of the businesses along this piece of road. In a couple of years this place is going to be booming. However, right now it is just wallowing compared to the down town area of Monrovia and Sierra Madre which are lower income residential townships. Back to the wireless thing.

Hyper Coffee is really a sweet little place. It has computer access for its customers and of course wireless capability at 54 Mpbs. I was able to connect using the IBM’s access software rather quickly. The signal strength here is terrific and the web sites refresh very quickly. All in all I give Hyper Coffee in Arcadia a 10+ in my book. As a matter of fact Jwire reviewed Hyper Coffee under its free wireless web access centers. You can read their review here at Jwire.com.

Another thing that I would like to pass along. Today I had to visit the Best Buy down the road. It is another story for another day but suffice it to say that I had to return a graphic calculator and had the chance to visit the “peripherals”. While I was there I picked up a Logitech MX wireless keyboard and mouse combo for the Dell Beast under the desk. Now this is sweet stuff here. I don’t know why I waited so long to upgrade my desk but this tech stuff is really cool-Oh-Mundo. It is really nice to not have all of the wires pulling on the mouse and now the keyboard is mobile. Great. I will keep you informed on the progress that I make. Remember that school starts in three weeks and I will not have time to fool around too much later so I have to get this stuff done now. For now Ciao.