Internet Access WiFi? at the pool hall?

We have enough reasons to justify Internet access for our own business needs.

The retail portion of the business will appreciate the access and would be willing to pay. Which is what will keep existing regulars and hopefully add new customers.
Thanks for all the replies. .

Sorry to waste everyone's time.
 
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Not only does my pool hall have it for free, but we even have a computer that anyone can use! I've brought my laptop in a few times, but only to record myself playing with the webcam.

I would never pay for access, no.
 
arsenius said:
Not only does my pool hall have it for free, but we even have a computer that anyone can use! I've brought my laptop in a few times, but only to record myself playing with the webcam.

I would never pay for access, no.
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So do most of the poolrooms around me.
 
We just got it a month or so ago and people are loving it, from what I see.

Naturally, most people are playing pool, but alot of people come to hang out, play some pool and then play poker.

Seems like a good idea, but I haven't used it yet.
 
Where I play we have internet access. It is a sports bar pool hall. Ten 7 footers and 17 nine footer. Since the owner uses internet access in his office it is just a matter of getting a router that is both wired and wireless.
I can get on the internet using my ipod touch.
 
We have free WiFi from a store next to our pool hall. The person that owns this WiFi access point plays pool a lot and he doesn?t mind us using it. WiFi is good because when we go to play pool as a family, I am usually playing pool, my son is playing pool or video games, and the wife is either playing pool with me, or she is on her Ipod on the internet. So she uses it just about every time we are there?so for us, it?s a good thing. It keeps her occupied when she isn?t in the mood to play pool. Me, I go to play pool, not get on the Internet.

Now, I have taken my laptop and a camera and streamed my son, wife and me playing pool so friends and family in other states could watch us. But for me to go to the pool hall and get online?that?s not what im there for.
 
Depending on access providers and their fees, offering wi-fi can be a pretty cheap thing. There's the one-time cost of the router (under $100) and then the ongoing cost of the connection (cable modem, DSL, what have you) - often $50 or less, depending.

If a room already has one of those connections, they're likely not using it so much that letting customers tap into it via wi-fi will impact their data transfer speeds.

Free wi-fi is a nice extra to offer - but in a pool room, charging for it? That's silly IMHO. It's not like a Starbucks or like business, where people are mostly idle and going in there largely for the connection and a comfy place to sit and suck down coffee/munch on grub. People go to a pool room to play pool.

The two rooms I frequent here in Atlanta (Marietta Billiards Club and Mr. Cues) both have wi-fi set up. It's very handy - I can pull up YouTube vids on my phone nice and quick.

Amusingly enough, last Monday I participated in Johnny and Earl's clinic at Johnny's room - Johnny mentioned showing a fellow in San Diego (Fast Mikey, as it turned out) a nine-ball rack that was easily snappable - someone else mentioned that a video of it was up on YouTube - I found it in about fifteen seconds and showed it to Johnny. "Oh yeah that's it!" Hooray for technology. :D
 
ScottW.
California commercial cable TV, ip phones and Internet access is a lot more than $50 a month. $200/month more.
Residential packages are much cheaper. Usually Internet access is around $30, Cable TV $25 IP Phones $25. All basic level services.

ScottW said:
Depending on access providers and their fees, offering wi-fi can be a pretty cheap thing. There's the one-time cost of the router (under $100) and then the ongoing cost of the connection (cable modem, DSL, what have you) - often $50 or less, depending.
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Well, I didn't say "commercial" in my post - and yeah, I would imagine those rates would be higher. So there's that, true.
 
Tom In Cincy said:
ScottW.
I don't know where you live, but in California commercial cable TV, ip phones and Internet access is a lot more than $50 a month. $200/month more.
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Our internet access here is 14.95 a month for basic DSL service...depending on what speed upload and download you have, I pay 19.95 for approx 3mbps download speed. And the sattelite access here is 35.00 a month. But I have FTA Sattelite so I get all the sattelite channels for nothing, all I had to do was buy the 200.00 box.

And no, this isnt commercial access
 
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Commercial is only needed if you have a ginormous pool room. The reason commercial costs more is because of dedicated ports, lines, not to mention possible multiple lines running through more than one router, or a central hub that can handle a crapload of connections without slowing down much (which means that the main line is much faster than what you're supposed to get on each individual line, which of course costs more money to install/keep up)
 
Tom In Cincy said:
We have enough reasons to justify Internet access for our own business needs.

The retail portion of the business will appreciate the access and would be willing to pay. Which is what will keep existing regulars and hopefully add new customers.
Thanks for all the replies. .

Sorry to waste everyone's time.
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Ask your vendor to get you a new juke box.
 
Cable companies do not offer RESIDENTIAL prices to COMMERCIAL Retailer stores. At least not in California.


jcommie said:
Commercial is only needed if you have a ginormous pool room. The reason commercial costs more is because of dedicated ports, lines, not to mention possible multiple lines running through more than one router, or a central hub that can handle a crapload of connections without slowing down much (which means that the main line is much faster than what you're supposed to get on each individual line, which of course costs more money to install/keep up)
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