I paid to get better wifi on our Southwest flight to Las Vegas for the librarian’s conference – but it’s not that much better. Takes a long time to access pages, and doing things like spell check on my comments on student work in the dropbox in the UW’s Learn@UW courseware can be really painful. Even creating a new post in Word Press takes a long time. For awhile I kept getting all these “0 response” from the website you’re trying to reach messages from Squid – who must be SW’s ISP – and I was starting to think maybe Squid was blocking Blue Host – but it was happening on wisc.edu sites as well.
And, oh – hello – things are not much better here in Vegas. The only place where I’ve found free wifi is the Convention Center – and the hotdog place where I had lunch.
Chicago dog for lunch & free wifi – best @alaac14 so far pic.twitter.com/1ukmsiB4YG
— Debra Shapiro (@DebsLunch) June 27, 2014
And at the hot dog place it was more reliable – kept dropping at the CC. In the resort/hotels/casinos it $14.99 per day per device, or a $20 per day resort fee, which is also per device, I think anyways, it was kind of hard to figure out when the desk clerk was telling us about it last night when we were tired travelers checking in. But oh, yea – here’s the login screen.
Umm yea, can’t even post it yet…
Anyways, sorry for not writing – but I’m in Vegas. OK, I’m a junkie, but I’m used to better connectivity than this.
Here’re the Vegas wifi rates – posted from Orlando airport, while on the way home. Where the wifi’s better – but I’m here because instead of a four hour direct flight Las Vegas to Milwaukee, we’ve had to go five hours Vegas to Orlando, then it’ll be two-plus hour flight to beer town. Then we still have to drive to Madison. What a trip.
