Free Wi-Fi??
Why is it that campgrounds list free wi-fi in the Good Sam book but after you check in and paid your money to camp they say it is only free for one hour....Duh.....and the clock starts as soon as you...
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the_vfox wrote: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.
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.
