WFi In theYukon,

I think we should remember that we are not in downtown big city. Your up in the Yukon with a small,population base.
Back in the old days before all this internet stuff.... when someone in our family traveled we used a telephone trick. The person that was traveling would call a family member every few days making it a person to person phone call for them selves. It didn't cost nothing, the family didn't know where you were, but the knew you were ok.
We also every so often broke down and did place a collect phone call to a family member to say where we were etc.....
No a days everyone seams to think they need to be in constant communication with " someone"... anyone....
where we are right now, we are located in southern BC, 14 km from the closest town, and there is no cell service ( I have a cell booster ) there are more business people camping here that you van shake a stick at. The people that work for them know where they are and if need be they can call the campground. But that it.
We also have a spot, the kids bought it for us a few years back because we snowmobile and ATV back in the mountains by our selves. The best part about the Spot is that we can tell them by per written text,
we are OK, we can tell them we need help,
non life threating and it give GPS location.
And the third is SOS with The GPS location and that goes to a person who notifies the closest RCMP, search and rescue. So on.
It works great my son-inlaw was snowmobiling in Revelstoke a couple years back and was the first person on site at an Avalanche with close to 1000 people hit by the snow.( he say it coming down) he hit is SOS on his Spot and rescuers were notified before the snow had selfless. ( it's on YouTube)
And if I was running a business and traveling in northern BC / Yukon, I would have probably have invested in a satilite internet set up, which are a common thing to see.
Oh, the reason for our cell booster, first grandchild was on the way.... " grandma" had to be there.... and all these years later it still works.
That's my 2bits.....

Soup.

I did a round trip from Ohio to Fairbanks and up the Haul Road to the Arctic Circle tent camping on my motorcycle in the summer of 2010. I had a non-smart phone at that time (a dumb phone?) and I also took my laptop, but from everything I had read, I knew ahead of time I probably wasn't going to have much cell service at all, let alone a 'net connection. That turned out to be an accurate expectation.

So people back home wouldn't worry about me and/or would know where to start looking if a griz got me and I was never heard from again, I bought a SPOT (a wearable GPS transmitter) and a subscription to the SPOT service that allowed people back home to see where I was in real time on the SPOT web site. I was glad I did, because except for when I was in a town such as Fairbanks, I seldom had even a cell signal out west and north of the border. For a 'net connection that would allow me to occasionally get and send email to friends and family, I periodically stopped at a McDonald's or similar in the lower 48 or in Fairbanks, and just did without in between. My campground in Fairbanks had pretty decent wifi (Ice Park). What a luxury. I could actually get and send email from my tent for the few days I was there, although I couldn't upload photos.

How in the world did anyone survive before internet? Done three trips to the North. Learned to deal with it. The world can survive a few days without me being in the know. I am not that important.

We traveled to the Yukon, NWT and Alaska a couple of times and had Internet almost 100% of the time (with a satellite internet system on a tripod). The only time we couldn't get connected was in places where the terrain was such that the sat angle couldn't get over the nearby obstacles (Yellowknife comes to mind).

We've given up on that system for cell based internet, but it's an option for those who must have the connectivity. Sat TV doesn't work up there but Sirius/XM does.

A few years back I was heading to Watson lake when my realtor reached with news that I had an offer on a spec. house I was selling. I Was going to have the contract faxed to me at Watson lake, sign everything and fax it back. I got the receiving part done, and returned the next day to send it. The clerk then announces a bit of an issue. Seems that somewhere south on the highway, somebody found the main fiber trunk line with a backhoe, and the phones should be restored in a few days, hopefully. Slow Wifi is one thing, no phones for a few hundred miles, was a whole other level.

Be so glad to hit the road today to the Yukon and on, NO phones or Tv, just some quiet for a change. Momma has her Ipad and that is more than enough.

Tom/Barb wrote:
Really horrible..

Perhaps the wise thing to do is tune out and enjoy your travels. I've made it a point to leave lap-top and tablet at home while out enjoying that which I can't partake of sitting at home. I know it's difficult for most, but I've come to appreciate being unplugged.. Just saying... FWIW, I do however travel with my flip-phone - NO texting

McDonald's which is near Wal-Mart also has free inter-net.

We went to the Walmart in Whitehorse to use the internet and check email.

Whitehorse has 2 major RV parks,
Pioneer RV park gives 300mb free. then it's $2.50 per 5 gig.
High Country gives 2 , 30 minute sessions, once logged on your session is complete when you log off.

Tok RV village has " tengonet.com" I never did get connected.

Glennallen - Northern Nights RV park, was free and excellent connection and no limit.

Valdez - Bayside RV park, was excellent and free no limit

Fairbanks - River's edge RV park, was excellent and free no limit.