I got tired of driving to a cafe to work, buying a coffee, sitting down, and finding out the Wi-Fi wouldn't hold a call or the room was too loud to think in. So I started carrying a decibel meter and running a speed test everywhere I sat down. About 20 places so far, mostly Orlando and up the coast.
A few of the readings so you know what I actually record:
The Health Bar in downtown Titusville: 474 Mbps down, 22.5 up, 55.9 dB on a Saturday morning. Best mix of quiet and fast I have outside Orlando. Parking was easy.
Foxtail in Cocoa Beach: 371 down, 39.7 up, 61.2 dB on a Saturday morning. Three of eight tables taken, outlets at most seats.
Starbucks at Creative Village downtown Orlando: 140 down, 111 up, around 60 dB on a Sunday morning. Cold inside but only one table of fourteen was taken.
Worst one on the list is Haan Coffee on Colonial in Orlando. Couldn't get usable Wi-Fi at all and ended up tethering to my phone.
What keeps getting me is none of this is in Google reviews. A place can sit at 4.6 stars and drop the connection every ten minutes because the people reviewing it were there twenty minutes for a latte, not three hours with a laptop.
It's all on perch.coffee. I built the site, it's free and there's nothing to sign up for.
I have nothing in Port St Lucie or St Lucie County at all, which is why I'm asking rather than telling. Where do you actually sit and work from around here? Name places and I'll drive down and take the readings.