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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / RVs / July 2006Elk Meadows RV Park-Estes Park, Co
Just spent 5 days there and one of the things I needed was a internet WiFi connection that they advertised. This is the only reason I chose this park. Lo and behold yes they did have it when it worked. You needed to take your laptop and wander around the park to either the Lodge or clear to the other end of the park to the laundry in hopes that you could get it to work. Some times it did and sometimes it didn't with didn't being the winner. Nothing else wrong with the park but if you need a connection as I did, then look to another park.  SignatureDavid B. Mathews dmathews9587@comcast.net When the internal WIFI in my laptop can't get a signal, I always carry around a Netgear Wireless USB adapter ($50) and a 16' USB extender ($25). I've gone from 0 bars on the internal to 3 bars by running the cable out the window and hanging the USB adapter from the TV antenna. Steve > Just spent 5 days there and one of the things I needed was a internet WiFi > connection that they advertised. This is the only reason I chose this park. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > else wrong with the park but if you need a connection as I did, then look to > another park. > Just spent 5 days there and one of the things I needed was a internet WiFi > connection that they advertised. This is the only reason I chose this [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > winner. Nothing else wrong with the park but if you need a connection as > I did, then look to another park. I like the internet as much as the next person...and will admit that on my last trip I did take along my laptop. But man...there is life away from the newsgroups and email; one would hope that an Estes Park campground campground should be measured by something other than a weak wifi net. > But man...there is life away from the newsgroups and email; one would hope > that an Estes Park campground campground should be measured by something > other than a weak wifi net. Email does beat irradiating your head for an hour with a cell phone to keep in contact with people. The internet is useful for something besides person-to-person communication. While away from home, I use it to find restaurants, tourist attractions, and to find out "what the heck was that thing". For example, I went to Errol, NH last weekend, and saw large rock piles evenly spaced in the Andoscoggin River around Berlin. Some googling later, I found out: http://tylersterritory.com/travel/atlantic-canada/nhampshire/woods/woods-01.html http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Fishing/Fishing_Reports/Fishing_Reports_2003/fis hing_report_082103.htm http://www.newhampshire.com/pages/nh-historic-marker-boom.cfm The first link is some really nice pictures from somebody who also wonders what they are. The second link includes the text "There are many historic sites along this section of the river, including the small rock islands known as boom piers, which are remnants of log-drive days" and a photo captioned "A view of the Androscoggin River and historic boom piers from the Milan bridge." I then googles specifically for boom piers, having learned what they're called. The third link describes boom piers. Logs were lashed to them to divide the river into lanes for transporting logs. > Email does beat irradiating your head for an hour with a cell phone to > keep in contact with people. I feel sorry for people that just can't get away from the daily grind while on vacation. When I go camping I want to be away from people, noise, traffic, crowds, congestion, AND phone calls as well as not worrying about email. All of that can wait till I get back. I'm on vacation!! >> Email does beat irradiating your head for an hour with a cell phone to >> keep in contact with people. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >worrying about email. All of that can wait till I get back. I'm on >vacation!! don't. people relax in different ways. and some of us are gone for extended periods of time so we can't just put everything on hold quite as easily as others. 73, rich, n9dko > > Email does beat irradiating your head for an hour with a cell phone to > > keep in contact with people. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > worrying about email. All of that can wait till I get back. I'm on > vacation!! Why do you think I was talking about the daily grind? Doesn't your mother want to hear from you once in awhile? I hate talking on the phone, and I refuse to do business during the small amounts of vacation time I get...but it's occasionally necessary to make some contact with somebody, whether by phone or email. Some people, like me, work while on the road so we can afford to have and RV and use it. I need Internet for my business. >> Email does beat irradiating your head for an hour with a cell phone to >> keep in contact with people. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > worrying about email. All of that can wait till I get back. I'm on > vacation!! > I like the internet as much as the next person...and will admit that on my > last trip I did take along my laptop. > > But man...there is life away from the newsgroups and email; one would hope > that an Estes Park campground campground should be measured by something > other than a weak wifi net. This reminds me of something we experienced in Creede, Colorado a couple of years ago this September. We were standing on a Main Street corner and there was a young, yuppie-looking fellow using a pay phone just a few feet away. We couldn't help hearing him tell the person on the other end of his conversation.... "Yeah it's called Creede. No internet connections, cell phone doesn't work worth a damn. It's a God-awful place!" We chuckled quietly but couldn't help feeling sorry for him. RonB > Just spent 5 days there and one of the things I needed was a internet WiFi > connection that they advertised. This is the only reason I chose this [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > winner. Nothing else wrong with the park but if you need a connection as > I did, then look to another park. We spent a week there last August and didn't have a problem. It may depend on the location of your site or they may have had a system problem. Ron |
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