It's crowded and God help you if you're there on a Saturday, but it is one of the most wired places in the country. If you have a laptop and an ethernet card, you can jack in for free and use their network all day long. Then I reinstall Windows. So, using my sister's AOL account, I download my provider's software. I play with this crap for days, since the machine will connect, but not link my machine to the network.
Frustration is a good word here.
This goes on for four days. I'm so frustrated that I think I have to call Microsoft. This is what they call the last resort. Darth Vader's theme plays softly in the background while I beg for help. But, at 3 AM, I hit the right combination of buttons and get online.