Flutterby™! : T-Mobile WiFi

With the office move we're still without telecommunications services at work. So I've been trying to use the 802.11b ("WiFi" for those of you who buy the marketing speak. Don't invest in a "WiFi" operation unless you've already identified the sucker) service that T-Mobile sells from the Starbucks halfway down the block. Yeesh, those boys need to figure out how to build an access point; one moment I'll be told my account has used all its minutes, the next it works, connectivity is on and off, the way they handle the initial redirect plays hell with caches. This isn't rocket science, there are open source solutions for billed wireless access points. It amazes me that even with the simplification of a centralized user login server they haven't got this right.