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This is being posted via a wireless connection (CampLAN) from On the River RV park in Boise ID. It is an 802.11b PCMCIA card that works only on Win 98, 98SE or Me. Win 2000 and XP comming soon. Speed is about 56K. Took about 5 min to set up. $5.00 per day. 105 degrees yesterday, 106 to 108 predicted for today, no shade in the park, so I am heading out for a cooler place. Whever that may be. Regards, Wiley Roasting in Boise
Dum, dum, de dum….. 71.8 at 1340 hours here in central MN. Sunny, winds light and variable. Humidity, low. Eat your hearts out. LZ – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ????
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It only means that they have a connection in the office or usually the laundry room that you can plug into. You use your own ISP via a local or long distance number Ed – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ???? Thanks in advance for your advice Andy in Dallas
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Mostly the latter. Personally, I have yet to run across one that has a direct ISP hookup YMMV JD – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ???? Thanks in advance for your advice Andy in Dallas
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When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ????
Hi Andy, 99% of the time it means there’s a phone plug somewhere, office or laundry or pay phone data port, that you can plug your laptop into to go online. You will be using your ISP of course, so choose one that has both lots of local numbers and 800#s Occasionally you will find a campgorund with phone hookups at your campsite…. Hunter
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And those who have a phone hookup right at the site will usually say so prominently. The rest are in a common area, as Ed noted. steve
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – It only means that they have a connection in the office or usually the laundry room that you can plug into. You use your own ISP via a local or long distance number Ed Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ???? Thanks in advance for your advice Andy in Dallas
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Should have finished writing what I was thinking. They generally say so prominently in their advertising. steve
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – And those who have a phone hookup right at the site will usually say so prominently. The rest are in a common area, as Ed noted. steve It only means that they have a connection in the office or usually the laundry room that you can plug into. You use your own ISP via a local or long distance number Ed Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ???? Thanks in advance for your advice Andy in Dallas
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Or even stranger, the RV park I am in now has no phone lines for laptops, but they have cable TV at each site. I was able to get RoadRunner Internet access (free cable modem and first 3 months 1/2 price) at my site!
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – And those who have a phone hookup right at the site will usually say so prominently. The rest are in a common area, as Ed noted. steve It only means that they have a connection in the office or usually the laundry room that you can plug into. You use your own ISP via a local or long distance number Ed Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ???? Thanks in advance for your advice Andy in Dallas
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Or even stranger, the RV park I am in now has no phone lines for laptops, but they have cable TV at each site. I was able to get RoadRunner Internet access (free cable modem and first 3 months 1/2 price) at my site!
Interesting Marc…… If you were to move to another park, also with cable access, could you still get RoadRunner? Hunter
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Or even stranger, the RV park I am in now has no phone lines for laptops, but they have cable TV at each site. I was able to get RoadRunner Internet access (free cable modem and first 3 months 1/2 price) at my site! Interesting Marc…… If you were to move to another park, also with cable access, could you still get RoadRunner? Hunter
I have no idea, I just thought it was funny, even though the park claims internet access available, it’s not by phone. Theres no internet access via phone in the office, but I could get cable internet access at my site!
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Hunter, Road Runner would have to be offered by the cable company supplying that cable service. I had Road Runner until my cable company (Cox) recently dropped RR and started their own. steve
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Or even stranger, the RV park I am in now has no phone lines for laptops, but they have cable TV at each site. I was able to get RoadRunner Internet access (free cable modem and first 3 months 1/2 price) at my site! Interesting Marc…… If you were to move to another park, also with cable access, could you still get RoadRunner? Hunter
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Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ???? Thanks in advance for your advice Andy in Dallas
I have even been a few CGs that not only have the phone line available but have also posted the local dial up numbers for the most popular ISP’s such as Aol, Earthlink, ATT, Prodigy, Juno, etc. George
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Mostly the latter. Personally, I have yet to run across one that has a direct ISP hookup YMMV
Stayed in Gadsden Alabama and they had wireless access. They rent the PCMCIA wireless adapters for $3.00 and you use thier DSL connection. NICE!! Ronnie
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Yes you may be able to do that. Here’s what it depends upon. With cable ISP they control access with the cable modem which has an IP address, once your cable modem or the one you rent from the cable company IP address is entered in that company’s server it will allow hookup. Our cable area (charter) covers several counties for their "local office" So if I take the modem and hook it up to a cable connection within that "local office" it will sign in give access. Will you be able to connect to any company’s cable? I would highly doubt it, but it’s not impossible that a cable companies server would be set up to allow any connection to work.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Or even stranger, the RV park I am in now has no phone lines for laptops, but they have cable TV at each site. I was able to get RoadRunner Internet access (free cable modem and first 3 months 1/2 price) at my site! Interesting Marc…… If you were to move to another park, also with cable access, could you still get RoadRunner? Hunter
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Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ???? Thanks in advance for your advice Andy in Dallas
The best place I’ve found for telephone/internet access was in May of this year at a CG in Abilene, Kansas called "Covered Wagon" Apparently they had Lucent technologies come in and wire the campground so that each site has a phone line (jack). If you want telephone service at your site it costs $2 per day (no longdistance connection – just local and 800 calls). The nice part was you could have it for a month or just one night. The connection is controlled from the CG office, not from the phone company. I used it to keep in touch with e-mail and such on the laptop through my AOL account. Beautiful clear connection. I wish more CGs would do it this way. JD
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This is being posted via a wireless connection (CampLAN) from On the River RV park in Boise ID. It is an 802.11b PCMCIA card that works only on Win 98, 98SE or Me. Win 2000 and XP comming soon. Speed is about 56K. Took about 5 min to set up. $5.00 per day. 105 degrees yesterday, 106 to 108 predicted for today, no shade in the park, so I am heading out for a cooler place. Whever that may be. Regards, Wiley Roasting in Boise – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ????
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I agree with Tom but wonder if maybe the RV Park has multiple login id’s that campers could use. They’d not necessarily be attached to their own isp but would have web access and web-based email access. If that isp allows receiving/sending email from other than their servers, as mine does, they could then have pop/smtp access to their own isp’s mail servers. I don’t know if any CG have hookups like this but I like the idea. Even AOL users can get their email from the aol pop servers. I assume they also can get web access to the mail. And if they set up aol to use tcpip instead of a modem, they could log on through the cg’s id and then start aol and run it like normal. steve
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Yes you may be able to do that. Here’s what it depends upon. With cable ISP they control access with the cable modem which has an IP address, once your cable modem or the one you rent from the cable company IP address is entered in that company’s server it will allow hookup. Our cable area (charter) covers several counties for their "local office" So if I take the modem and hook it up to a cable connection within that "local office" it will sign in give access. Will you be able to connect to any company’s cable? I would highly doubt it, but it’s not impossible that a cable companies server would be set up to allow any connection to work. Or even stranger, the RV park I am in now has no phone lines for laptops, but they have cable TV at each site. I was able to get RoadRunner Internet access (free cable modem and first 3 months 1/2 price) at my site! Interesting Marc…… If you were to move to another park, also with cable access, could you still get RoadRunner? Hunter
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ???? Thanks in advance for your advice Andy in Dallas The best place I’ve found for telephone/internet access was in May of this year at a CG in Abilene, Kansas called "Covered Wagon" Apparently they had Lucent technologies come in and wire the campground so that each site has a phone line (jack). If you want telephone service at your site it costs $2 per day (no longdistance connection – just local and 800 calls). The nice part was you could have it for a month or just one night. The connection is controlled from the CG office, not from the phone company. I used it to keep in touch with e-mail and such on the laptop through my AOL account. Beautiful clear connection. I wish more CGs would do it this way. JD
I tried to drum up some interest in this type of system with the small AZ town we spend winters in. I know the woman who runs the ISP portion and the town has a number of RV parks. In fact the population doubles in winter, so I thought it would improve their bottom line. The phone pedestals are already at the sites and they all have the capacity for two lines. Unfortunately they showed no interest. LZ
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Hi, I haven’t been to a campground that has internet available yet, being new to the lifestyle…. When a campground says they have INTERNET connections, does that mean they have their own ISP service, or does it mean that they provide a plug-in to the telephone line and I will have to use either a local number for my personal ISP or an 800 number ???? Thanks in advance for your advice Andy in Dallas
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