WIFI Hot spot Alaska
Hi, I am looking to buy a new Hot Spot device to use with my computor in Alaska. I have a Virgin Mobile MIFI and could not use it in 2012. Virgin was also very rare out west this summer. I see now the...
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oldbeek wrote:
Most of these spots also have a Mc Donalds:S
No McDonald's in Tok, Talkeetna, or Healy in 2013. Or Skagway, Haines, Dawson City, and Watson Lake, for that matter. And we could never connect to the WiFi at the Whitehorse McDonald's.
Although the visitor's center in Tok does not have WiFi, the gift shop across the street does. We didn't find WiFi in Talkeetna, but some of the cafes likely have it. But we did use the free WiFi at nearly every Fred Meyer and Safeway we visited between Idaho Falls and Soldotna.
When we were in the Denali-Healy area, we stayed at the Riley Creek Campground, where the laundry/store had pretty good WiFi. And lots of campers were sitting on benches and at the picnic tables there using their phones, tablets, and laptops.
How did we survive in Alaska during the 30 years I worked there before the Internet and cell phones were invented? Only communication method from remote areas back then were the radios in our planes and helicopters. We couldn't call home on those, but we did send postcards to our kids!
