This comes as no big surprise to us WiFi users when we visit our regular coffee shops. LA times reports that many coffee shops are taking free Wi-Fi off the menu to stimulate their sales.

Sadly where I'm at there is a major lack in coffee shops that aren't Starbucks. The good ones I knew of were in the SF bay area where they served good coffee and really good food in many cases.

Speaking of Starbucks, since they've opened up free WiFi for everyone I've noticed a considerable decrease in the amount of bandwidth available to us regulars that used to enjoy decent T1 speeds. So... I no longer go there and rely on their bandwidth - I actually use AT&T's 3G network a lot lately.

I see where the coffee shops are coming from, but those are definitely the ones that are losing my type of business.

We'll see how this all plays out in the end. It may be that some enterprising individual will have to create a nice chain of cybercafes that serve good finger foods.