your experiences with WI-FI at Pilot, Flying J and TA truck stops?

Yes, that's what I found. I tried it for a few months and canceled because of that. Plus I was forced to stop at a PFJ to use it. Now with my personal WiFi I can stop anywhere and use all of the bandwidth myself.

 

The problem is the routers at truckstops.
A) there arent enough of them
B) they are usually cheap N or G types
C) the primary line coming in is usually less than 500mbps (megabits per second)
D) a 150 space truckstop where everyone was hitting up netflix 2k HD would eat just over 1Gbps.(gigabits per second) With the new 4k resolutions on the horizon go north o 2.1Gbps

Just some math for you:

RAM Memory, SDD, HDD and CPU/GPU speed are calculated in bytes ber second. As most of us know, 1 byte is equal to 8 bits.

Internet speeds are calculated in bits per second.

What does this mean?

One internet providers are ripping all of us a new one, and
TWO this means your 1Gbps link is actually running at 128 Megabytes per second. That assumes a stable constant signal, but we all know about "assumptions".

However most commercial cable companies only offer 100Mbps to 500Mbps.

Realistically, the only connections that could handle the Ontario Twins, or the West Memphis Gang Bang, is OC-48 at 2.4Gbps. This however is ungodly expensive north of ~$35k per month.

Per location.


So there ya go...

Oh and just FYI, Wireless is calculated in Bytes and not bits.
Unless you have a grandfathered unlimited data plan, none of the wireless providers of unlimited data anymore. Most have a top cap of 50GB+$15 per GB over 50. The reason is that there is simply not enough frequencies to go around. This is what led the the LightSquared collapse, another missed by the media scum, watershed event in the war for more bandwidth.

And the grandfathered plans are getting cancelled by the big three. Perhaps the CB will make a comeback as a source of entertainment...