Monday Nov. 19, 2012
Last year we bought a Yagi antenna to help us find free Wifi as we travelled and that has worked in many situations. However, now it has really showed it’s worth in bringing in a weak signal that we are already paying for. Here in the Riverside RV park in Laughlin, Nevada the cost for a week of internet is $19.99 but it barely works at best. It doesn’t work everywhere in the park and they don’t have enough antennas so it has always been a huge frustration. The first week we were here I just used the laptop wireless connection and it worked good sometimes and sometimes not at all! Every time Eric touched it….it ground to a halt….bad vibes or what! So….enter the Yagi.
Week two we turned off the wireless connection on the laptop and paid for a week connected with the Yagi which is pointed at the antenna up on the hill behind us. Guess what….it is BLAZING FAST…..super. Worth every penny that we paid for it because even though the connection showed excellent strength without the Yagi it was less than mediocre at best. 10 points for the Yagi!
Today I even managed to download Skype and get that up and running. We do have an AT&T phone that our daughter(Krista) and son-in-law Jeff gave us on their plan and it is great for calls in the US but calling Canada is expensive for a good chat. The really good thing is that they can turn the service on for Mexico as well and we can use it for emergencies if we need too. Now I will be able to use Skype to call home when (and if) we get to Mexico.
Ain’t technology great!
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