Does anyone know if there's a device or program you could use to alert you when your wifi is down? I guess you'd need a bit of software on your wifi enabled smartphone trying to access the internet - but only via the wifi. It would buzz if it couldn't, thereby alerting you that your local wifi was hosed.
Someone needs to build this device or software for cafe owners. Failed wifi is becoming the number-one reason I won't go back to cafes now, which sounds lame, but every cafe offers coffee and tables. Besides, nothing pisses you off at a cafe like losing Internet and not knowing when/if it's coming back.
Doug, build this and we'll be rich I tell you!
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Most cafes already have this, but they call them "whiny customers."
I've got an idea about how to do this without requiring iPhone specific development.
It's cheap and easy but it won't make us rich.
Oh, and you seem to be assuming that if the cafe owners know the wifi is down that they (a) care and (b) will do something about it.
Based on your first-hand research methods, is this a safe assumption?
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