As much as I’m annoyed by walking into a supposedly ‘The Cloud-WiFi’ connected pub in Hartlepool and finding no connection, I really have to say I’m continually delighted by the fact that The Cloud does, generally speaking, work. Very well. When I arrived at Liverpool Street Station, I was able to do that very geeky but rather satisfying sigh. It’s an internal sigh of relief, of connectivity. If you’re an ultra geek, I’m sure you’ll understand.
I flipped open the laptop and did a further sigh of relief when I saw the “WiFi Zone – The Cloud” SSID flash across the top of my screen as I connected.
I would like to avoid having to login every time, although their cookie (or, perhaps Safari’s own password ‘rememberer’) fills in my details automatically. I would like it if all my devices suddenly got wifi access when they came into a The Cloud zone — multiple mac addresses per account. That would be a useful addition.
I assuming that’s how the iPhone connectivity works. Map MAC address -> Mobile Number -> IMEI so it can’t imagine it would be too long.
Do that and suddenly it’s a breeze to use handset based WiFi VoIP services, rather than having to fiddle around entering in the password using a numeric keypad.
BTW had the same connectivity problem in Nottingham last night, maybe it was a provincial thing 😉
The Cloud is probably one of the better ideas someone’s come up with in recent time.
Working in the City of London and being able to connect to the net on demand any place inside or outside is just fab!
Multiple MAC address accounts is definitely a good idea!