Truck stops with internet

Just read the fine print regarding the Unlimited plans. Heavy video streamers may end up frustrated long before the billing cycle is up, especially if they like their HD video quality.

 

Even at 100gigs I have no problem what so ever streaming

 

Enjoy it while you can. I think in September or October is when they turn on full enforcement of the policy. I'll see if I can find that news release from about 4 or 5 months ago when they were talking about their lax enforcement until they could get all the equipment up to speed.

 

Doesnt matter , even when your being prioritized( throttled ) it's still at a very doable 3g . been there done that.
Still now problem at streaming.

 

Netflix has really improved their compression as well. It does not use near as much as it did a year or 2 ago.

 

I quit Netflix about a year ago. They kept dropping many of the older shows that I liked and it was rare that they had a movie I wanted to watch. But I have loaded directv with dvr in truck so that helps.

 

I cannot really help you. What I did is carry a spare length of several types of phone line cable. A pair of splicing switches or hubs in IT speak... The phone on the booth was taken out, bottom removed, wire to the base traced, taken out. Spliced into hub with laptop and it's 56K dailup modem PCI card everything reassembled.

Picked a 800 Number to dail internet on, per state I am in and went on line. I did have to configure the speaker and the modem not to SDCCCCRRRREEEEEEEEEEPPPPPTHTHHH in the entire dining room.

Talk about potentailly being beaten to death out back.

Right around 2000, truckstops began tearing out telephones capable of being taken apart while one waits for the meal order to arrive. It only takes a few moments to get into a phone, rewire to the modem and online you go.

Meal completed, google finished (Actually netscape explorer back then... ) and reassemble booth phone, verified the dial tone and so on. Pay bill and leave. Might be 4 hours or more before I left the booth.

When many truckstops tore out phones, then it went to either the Flying J or the Pilots where it's really easy to pull one wire out of the base of the phone, pick a 800 number, dail the net and yer in.

Certain truckstops around Oklahoma actually relied on a radio type transmitting and would not accept digital signals generated by a modem. Something about trying to make a analog radio squawk in frequencies high enough to choke it at a volume too big for the limits of amplitude.

Does that make sense to anyone?

This was my internet back in the 2000's era. Laptop fed off updating street GPS maps etc. Then it's back onto the road and roam to wherever the load needed to be. In fact that GPS believe it or not was a very precision tool.

But my very favorite tool was a set of DVDs that you bought for like 9 dollars in Staples or Office depot by year. Current year of all business numbers coast to coast in the United States that are currently active and verified to be accurate.

They do not need to go to that trouble for accuracy. If it is REALLY on the numbers (Pun intended...) and accurate as hell... your poor traffic manger, dispatcher or broker who finally understood there is a grubby driver like me demanding information he is not prepared to give on the precise load plus load number plus broker number plus plus plus.

A few moments PAUSE..... PA U S E...

DSRIVERSA DO NBOT GETTA THIS *&^%%$$ NUMBER!!!!! HOW DID YOU GET THIS [increasignly bad badder words breaking down into gibberish as emotions took over in rage gobbling into the telephone at me...] Oh that? Staples business CD. 9 dollars, I have all your numbers you don't give to anyone. Now how about that load information?

Silence.

An explosion best described as roaring. As in angry dispatcher roaring prior to a stroke or something.

A hour later, my dipshi.. er dispatcher sends me a inconvient message "Call me" on the satcomm to do his version of what happened with broker. YOU (Meaning me...) DO NOT CALL *&^%!!!! UNDERSTOOD?!

Jawhol.

Fast forward to Portland Oregon That same dispatcher wanted me to call CH Robinson on I-5 southbound loaded. I called him on the cell while rolling at 60 and told him to remind him of his command for me not to call &^%$

PAUSE>

SILENCE.

Oh boy.., batten downhatches here comes a bad blow... greybeards be shipping black waters onto the bridge...

 

I've had them for 5 years or so. The last I renewed about 2-1/2 years ago I got this smart phone, my second one.

I don't know what unlocked means. They gave me this phone very discounted, and my Dads flip phone for nothing, and through in LG Bluetooth.

 

buddy its 2017, not 2003. get a phone and get a unlimited internet plan. even if thts the case, u gotta pay to use internet at truck stops. either with points u rack up fueling or your hard earn money. if there any mcdonalds within a truck stop or near it, thts the only free internet u gettin