Jim Willis

Red Bank needs a bar with wireless internet access.*
 
Last night my friend Hempstead and I had our online fantasy football draft. We figured we'd head downtown and find a bar with some wifi and drink a few beers while we sat through our league's draft.
 
Jamian's WiFi wasn't working (Chris called, I don't know who he spoke with there but I know that Jamian was looking for a public WiFi solution). So he called the Dublin House and the bartender said they had WiFi. Our draft was supposed to start at 7:30 so we got there about 7:20 only to find that while, yes, there was a WiFi network named "Dublin House," said network was not handing off IP addresses. The bartender tried to find the router for us (my best guess was that it just needed to be restarted as sometimes the linksys routers decide to crap out and not cooperate with DHCP'ing and need a little restart). He had no idea where the wifi router was located though and so at 7:28 with two minutes to our draft kick-off, we bolted back to my house where -- o, the humanity -- I had NO BEER but the wifi was reliable and one of my neighbors came through after an urgent SOS txt msg with some beers for us.
 
Anyway, this is 2009, am I wrong in thinking that wifi should be a little more ubiquitous and that maybe bartenders should be able to treat wifi routers like they used to treat jukeboxes and know where they're located in their establishment and be able to maybe turn them on/off if necessary?
 
*[Better yet, it needs complete downtown coverage with something like Meraki: http://meraki.com/ Something I've spoken to several members of RB's council about but the suggestion has fallen on deaf ears.]

UPDATES

• I heard from Jamian over at Facebook and he says that the WiFi over there is working
• I heard from a couple folks about Brannigans also having WiFi (and good burgers). 
• thanks for the feedback!