Skype

Slow WiFi is one of modern life’s great frustrations. That’s why many coffee shops hate Dropbox, Google Drive, Skype, and Netflix. They’re bandwidth hogs. To provide quality WiFi, coffee shops often take steps to prevent these types of cloud applications from running on their networks, or at least slow them down drastically. High-end routers are routinely marketed and sold for their ability to block common cloud applications and data syncing protocols. We can’t blame coffee shops for this. Customers don’t realize what’s causing a wireless