Internet connection on the road

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

..................You can also drive for 100s of Kms west of the Great Divide without any mobile reception of any type let alone G3 or NextG.............(

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Hell, you can drive 5 minutes from here on Highway 1 and not have any reception.

Mick

I can walk from one room to the next and not get reception.

Actually, it's worse than that. I get reception in one corner of the house. Walk 3 metres to the centre and no reception. :(

I've looked at the Next G coverage map, all around me is red (good reception) except for 2 squares of pink (marginal) right where I live. I'd have to sign up for 2 years to see if I can actually use it.

G'day.
If you google WIFI LOCATIONS, it will take you to a site where you enter the name of the town and it will list the open wifi sites.
I have it bookmarked at home, but am at work now.
If you need it, give me a cooee.

Drive past my house

Thanks namtrak, I'll be the silver suki with two yellow boats on the trailer doing blockies every third day! :D

Trevor, thanks for the WIFI locations tip, I'll sift through later. It looks as though for my purposes the maccas trick will be easiest though.

Cheers,

P

I am an Optus cable user

but,

I use telstra when travelling

I have a wireless laptop and use it at McDonalds, more and more outlets are coming on line

I connect to the internet at Mcdonalds for free , then to telstra and using a prepaid phone card connect to the webmail for optus and download my mail

It is very slow , but OK for mail without attachments , tell you friends no attachments while we are travelling

sending photo's would be slow

because of speed or other reasons I cannot find out about it will not send some mail , get one of those messages that I cannot understand . But then send it to another address with the same ISP and it goes ???

would like to get a wireless card and be able to use like a prepaid phone card , maybe in time

The wireless card you use to connect to McDonalds is different to the wireless card for Optus or Telstra , this why you get into the hot spot where you can look at the internet , but for mail need to sign onto Telstra etc. I think the wireless cards for telstra and optus are specific to themselves , ie not to each other etc

hope this helps