because guess what, its 7.50pm now and starbucks at 35 st and 8th ave will close at 10.00, actually they kick us out earlier, though i found a bar that is in my hotel that faces a starbucks and i can get a moderately good signal if i sit at the right place.
Thats the state of ubiquitous internet today, of course if you don't care you can get on those cullular networks for about 300 bucks for the card and some more for the service, and thats always under 100kbps....something is very wrong with that picture, remember the internet is over a decade old