Boingo Wifi?

If you're an American Express "premium" cardholder (Platinum, etc.), you can get a free Boingo account, courtesy of AmEx.

Save your money and apply it towards a MiFi system on one of the cellular networks you prefer. Campground wifi is not worth the effort.

I believe they are one of the few still standing companies that solicited RV Parks, coffee shops, hotels etc. offering to install wifi equipment, manage the equipment and be the contact point for the wifi system. The pitch would be something like "you get all the equipment for free, and we might even pay you for the privilege, depending upon the pay as you go rate we charge at your location. The service could be great, or terrible, depending upon what internet pipeline the park could and would bring in. (this is almost always the big problem on wifi, bandwidth availability). But it was almost always a pay for use system which is a very unpopular option in wifi these days. An account with one of those companies would get you free or discounted access at all of the locations they serve. I wouldn't buy an account unless you were a long term guest at a park that had them, and you tested the internet speeds before you bought to see if it was worth the money. I seriously doubt you would be doing anything but throwing money away if you weren't totally sure many places you were going to visit used that specific service.

3oaks wrote:
I can't answer.
I never heard of it so I guess I don't have a need for it.

You may not have heard of them, but they provide internet service to a lot of RV parks and I'm not impressed with them. I don't know if Bingo is just delivering what the park owners are willing to pay for or if they just generally provide poor service.

In one park the internet wasn't working at various parts of the park so the owner told us to call Bingo ourselves. We did - they wanted us to go around and test all of the antennas in the park to see if there were enough of them not working before they had someone drive the 50 miles to work on it.

Bill

3oaks wrote:
I can't answer.
I never heard of it so I guess I don't have a need for it.

Why post then

I can't answer.
I never heard of it so I guess I don't have a need for it.

speed depends on the individual park.

I found the service to be slow and unreliable. I do admit that was ten years ago. Far better to use data on a cell phone as far as having the wobbly wide web everywhere.

B9