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Do you ever get tired working from home? Not to mistake, the home office is great, you can manage your own time, no distractions, work in your shorts! It all sounds nice, but yes, it can get suffocating at times. Whenever possible, we like to get out and work from a coffee shop, or park (if your city is nice enough to offer you wifi!). Yes it does sound promising for the home worker, conferencing on your laptop, under a tree, in the warm afternoon sun!

It is nice to think that most cities soon, will have high speed wifi access. In Toronto, we have the One Zone, which is operated by Toronto Hydro, using their infrastructure already built out in the city. Unfortunately, this is a paid service, and at the moment, it is not really worth the small monthly fee their asking. I’ve tried a couple times, and your constantly trying to re-connect to network. However, the idea is there, and I’m sure they will improve the strength of their signal soon, if it has not improved already.

There is great coffee shop in Toronto, called Linux Cafe. Of course, as per their name, they fully support the open source initiatives. Linux was nice enough to send a boosted wireless signal out to the local park across the street. So the idea is possible, sitting under a tree, in a park, working on your laptop!

This video is a short recorded demo of our video conferencing services at Batipi…

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