Travel And The Limits Of The Internet
Yours truly is on the tail end of a week that proved the limits to blogging for someone on the move. I drove from San Diego to Santa Rosa on Sunday, and was able to post from my motels en route there and while there, and do slated shows. But in each instance, the “yes we have it!” hotel connections were hard to connect to.
Fast foward to Tuesday, when I headed from Santa Rosa to a town near Eugene, Oregon, to continue my school tour. I was unable to post or even get on my site, really, for two days since the only thing available was dial-up — hideously slow. This is the first time in several days that I am truly online…and this time (after driving the first 500 miles of a 1000 mile drive home) by staying at at Holiday Inn Express, picked specifically so I could KNOW I would get online easily (and Holiday Inn is always true to its name on internet reliability).
I’m only now getting caught up on posts on this site and others. I may face a similar situation in Connecticut next week. We’re basically still in the Fred Flintstone age of computers, the Internet and blogging itself so if you’re on the move, be prepared to face days when you may not be able to easily get online. Or if you do, it could be snail-paced dial up. (Cagle Cartoons could not be posted the past few days and will resume soon).
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Don’t know if you have looked into mobile broadband, but that might solved your problem.
The $50 a month likely will repay itself in being able to pick your motels strictly on price and convenience, and not having to worry about their internet.
Plus the saved aggravation and time factor as well.
Well, AR, we can agree on some things. If I had Joe’s kind of travel schedule I’d be using that service. From everything I’ve been able to determine it works quite well. I just don’t travel enough to need it.
Joe, if you do decide to consider this alternative the providers that have the best speed according to a couple of reviews I’ve read are Sprint and Verizon. They recently were offering 30 day trial periods. If you timed it right with your travels to give it a good work out you should have an idea if it’s really for you.
I do, I use it (Verizon), and I love it.
It also provides an unanticipated secondary benefit. Whenever my RoadRunner service goes down at home, I just pop the card in the laptop, and presto!, connected again.
The company I work for has one location that can’t get high speed internet and it’s a major pain. Software and data updates take forever. It is also slow enough so that using pcAnywhere or Windows XP remote support is often painfully slow. We’re thinking of putting a Sprint connection there because so far as I can tell only Sprint has the USB device which would mean not needing a card adapter to plug into the desktop PC there. The only reason they’re hesitating is that the location doesn’t get the strongest cell phone signals either.