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Current | 2004 | 2003Patisserie puts icing on access
14 June 2004
Wellington's oldest cake shop has started dishing up internet access to overseas visitors.
The Dorothy Patisserie, founded in 1930, sports a 802.11g WiFi hotspot installed by owners Mike and Liz Ross.
Mr Ross, a software industry executive, says the Cuba St cafe-shop, which now sells cakes online, needed access to the internet.
Putting in a WiFi access point so the connection could be shared with patrons added just $200 to the $300 cost of installing a JetStream broadband link.
The cake shop has become the first New Zealand access point in a global network of 3300 WiFi hotspots managed by US company Boingo Wireless.
Boingo signs up and bills WiFi customers, paying hotspot owners US$1.50 each time one of its subscribers uses their access point.
The arrangement means the shop can stick to its baking, rather than trying to resell broadband.
Mr Ross says Boingo subscribers - mostly Americans and Australians - have begun searching out the cafe.
Early indications are that Dorothy Patisserie's modest investment in technology should pay for itself quickly.
Six or seven subscribers turned up to partake in coffee, cake and net access during the first week the hotspot went live, he says.
