Free Wi-Fi??

I consider free Wi-Fi to be the same as free water in the washroom. It is the bare minimum to get by...

danager wrote:
I consider free Wi-Fi to be the same as free water in the washroom. It is the bare minimum to get by...

Yup

I would camp elsewhere and tell the campground you stayed at why. Running a wifi system is not huge expense, if they can give it to your for an hour free, it is not going to cost them much more to run it free all the time.

never heard of this actually. all the time I had 'free' wifi, it was free for the whole visit. huh.

the_vfox wrote:
I would camp elsewhere and tell the campground you stayed at why. Running a wifi system is not huge expense, if they can give it to your for an hour free, it is not going to cost them much more to run it free all the time.

The park's ISP may be a metered system, often a Satellite provider, and the costs skyrocket after a certain amount of bandwidth is used, and they might get throttled back to an unusable speed. More likely, the one hour free program is the park's way of limiting the amount of users on the system, keeping bandwidth use to a minimum and keeping speeds acceptable for the users. Many, many parks are in rural areas where the bandwidth and speeds available at any cost are limited. Get a lot of users on the network and it will grind to a halt for everyone. A one hour free policy will prevent people from streaming hours of video and having 6 hour Skype calls, just because they can.

FunnyCamper wrote:
never heard of this actually. all the time I had 'free' wifi, it was free for the whole visit. huh.

Not seen this in any one of the 175 campgrounds we have stayed at in the last 5 years and stayed at lots in the OP's home state.

Must be the motel 6 of campgrounds you stay at

I've stayed in quite a few campgrounds and have never come across the issue of a time limit. And the WiFi situation is getting better, albeit very slowly.

fj12ryder wrote:
I've stayed in quite a few campgrounds and have never come across the issue of a time limit. And the WiFi situation is getting better, albeit very slowly.

the closest we came to a "metered" wifi connection at a campground was at a place in ohio. a login to the connection was good for precisely 60-mins (no charge) and then you were dropped. you could immediately log back in but it was a PITA. I recall asking the desk clerk howcum and was told that it was to keep folks from streaming video. I pointed out that while inconvenient it certainly wouldn't halt streaming. then I was told it was to keep the non-paying guests like the neighbors from using the wifi. I politely suggested that the use of something other than GUEST as a password might solve that problem.

When we had our business, neighbors would call and ask me for the password.They were upset when I said no.

i usually ask if they have tengo internet and if they do i go right on down the road.
this is the only internet provider i have ran into that meters usage and provides a sub-standard product