vacationing in upstate NY town that has no service from *any* cell phone company
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wow! this one comes with 1045 hours of dial-up AOL!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Collectors-C...oAAOSwY3RXJpmu
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How far's the main building from your room? A couple of wireless->Ethernet bridges with external high-gain antennas and an access point inside your room may work--if they'll let you install that stuff, that is.
BTW I'm a bit surprised Verizon doesn't have coverage somewhere, considering they have the reputation of working everywhere and all.
BTW I'm a bit surprised Verizon doesn't have coverage somewhere, considering they have the reputation of working everywhere and all.
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cool, I guess I'll have to buy one of those AOL or Earthlink CDs on eBay?
wow! this one comes with 1045 hours of dial-up AOL!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Collectors-C...oAAOSwY3RXJpmu
wow! this one comes with 1045 hours of dial-up AOL!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Collectors-C...oAAOSwY3RXJpmu
Last edited by KCZ; Jul 27, 2016 at 12:42 am
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Collector's item, my patootie. I was still using AOL dialup until a year ago. People that live in metropolitan areas have no idea how much of the US still has no cell service and/or high speed internet, which per this thread includes upstate NY, Wisconsin, and part of New England.
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Those Verizon coverage maps are entirely fictitious. I live in northern New England, in an area that's included on Verizon's map, and we have no cell phone service in my town either from Verizon or anyone else.
Collector's item, my patootie. I was still using AOL dialup until a year ago. People that live in metropolitan areas have no idea how much of the US still has no cell service and/or high speed internet, which per this thread includes upstate NY, Wisconsin, and part of New England.
Collector's item, my patootie. I was still using AOL dialup until a year ago. People that live in metropolitan areas have no idea how much of the US still has no cell service and/or high speed internet, which per this thread includes upstate NY, Wisconsin, and part of New England.
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I meant the kinds of maps at the bottom of this page:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/landi...etter-matters/
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Yeah - a bit of a tease when you see a wifi signal, but it's not connected to the Internet.
I guess to your original question, if you really have to be able to connect to the Internet, this isn't the place to be dragged on vacation.
Perhaps there's a tall mountain you can hike that gets signal? I encountered that in western North Carolina a few weeks ago. No signal until we hiked one of the taller mountains in the area. Boom - lots of texts and VMs started rolling in.
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I think T-Mobile is the exception to the rule. They used to provide (it's been a long time since I looked) access to their internal RF models of actual coverage.
I meant the kinds of maps at the bottom of this page:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/landi...etter-matters/
I meant the kinds of maps at the bottom of this page:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/landi...etter-matters/
it also amuses me that the Verizon "Can you hear me now?" guy
has defected to Sprint recently!
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Those Verizon coverage maps are entirely fictitious. I live in northern New England, in an area that's included on Verizon's map, and we have no cell phone service in my town either from Verizon or anyone else.
Collector's item, my patootie. I was still using AOL dialup until a year ago. People that live in metropolitan areas have no idea how much of the US still has no cell service and/or high speed internet, which per this thread includes upstate NY, Wisconsin, and part of New England.
Collector's item, my patootie. I was still using AOL dialup until a year ago. People that live in metropolitan areas have no idea how much of the US still has no cell service and/or high speed internet, which per this thread includes upstate NY, Wisconsin, and part of New England.
Last bit, in Maine, fibre is surprisingly available in rural areas. There was an initiative a few years ago called 3 ring binder, which brought three rings of fibre optic to the various communities. Local ISPs have access to this, and are able to deploy it to their customers at fairly inexpensive prices.