There are two Stumptown locations in Capitol Hill. Rumor is the owner has a beef with the Vita owner. Hence the two Stumptown locations are equidistant to Vita. Looks like the 12th and Madison location is the bigger of the two -- with two stories.

UPDATE: I'm not a fan of the 12th and Madison location...too industrial.

Quoted: I was elated when I found out Stumptown was coming to Seattle! I went to Stumptown religiously when I lived in Portland. This is the best coffee in the Seattle! The second best is Tutta Bella in Columbia City for their pulled espresso, reminds me of espresso I had in Paris mmmmmmh and third is El Diablo for fun atmosphere and mexican chocolate mochas!

Quoted: Cisco sales in India are over $1 billion. Chambers is bullish about prospects of wireless in India. (It might also explain why the company snapped up WiMAX vendor Navini Networks for $330 million.)

For those who care, here are my results using ClearWire (wireless internet)
- Download: 1094 kbps
- Upload: 205 kbps

More on clearwire: http://bluedot.us/users/mohit/dot/69482190315

Quoted: Test the speed of your internet connection with Speakeasy's speed test.

Going to investigate if it would make sense to get this instead of continuing to pay for my Comcast Internet.

Quoted: Clearwire is a wireless broadband internet service provider (high speed wireless ISP) providing high speed wireless broadband internet access in Abilene TX, Anchorage AK, Bellingham WA, Bend OR, Boise ID, Burlington NC, Daytona Beach FL, Duluth MN, Eau Claire WI, Eugene OR, Greensboro NC, Jacksonville FL, Killeen/Temple TX, Lewiston ID, Maui HI, Medford OR, Merced CA, Midland/Odessa TX, Modesto CA, Redding CA, Reno NV, Roseburg OR, St Cloud MN, Stockton CA, Tri-Cities WA, Kennewick WA, Pasco WA, Richland WA, Visalia CA, Waco TX, Wichita Falls TX, Winston-Salem NC

I recently realized by Internet problems were actually due to slow throughput of my Belkin router.

This Linksys router is rated highly on Amazon and Newegg and is apparently more stable than the regular VxWorks-based WRT54G.

Quoted: Linksys last month switched the standard model of its ubiquitous WRT54G wireless router from Linux to VxWorks, starting with the "series 5" version. Now, Linksys is shipping a Linux-based WRT54GL model that it says it created specially for Linux hobbyists, hackers, and aficionados. The L version is identical to the "series 4" WRT54G units that Linux hobbyists have long enjoyed hacking, according to the company.

Yay! Tully's now has free wi-fi! Will Starbucks follow?

Quoted: Tully’s Coffee Corporation (Tully’s), the Pacific Northwest’s largest fully handcrafted coffee roaster, will make its wireless internet access (Wi-Fi) free to customers beginning Monday, August ...

Was talking about this with my friend last night. He's doing his phd thesis on a new wireless technology. Amazing something seemingly so fragile works so well...

Quoted: In the GSM system, the synchronisation of the mobile phones is achieved by sending timing offset commands from the base station which instructs the mobile phone to transmit earlier or later. This compensates for propagation delay as the speed of radio waves are the same as light (finite). The mobile phone is not allowed to transmit for its entire timeslot, but there is a guard period at the beginning and end of the timeslot. As the transmission moves into the guard period, the mobile network adjusts the timing offset to re-center the transmission.