Business Owners Can You Depend On Wi-fi When You Travel
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Business Owners: Can You Depend on Wi-Fi When You Travel?
Summary:
"Don't worry, Wi-Fi is everywhere these days!"
While this is a common belief, I approached my 10-week road trip from Massachusetts to Alaska with caution. Traveling through some of North America's most remote regions, I needed reliable internet access to manage my business efficiently.
Article Body:
Before setting off, I faced the challenge of finding reliable information on internet access along our route. To prepare for potential connectivity issues, I equipped my laptop with a Wi-Fi card and a handheld device for wireless internet access. Additionally, I had a modem for phone line connections and a virtual assistant who could check emails if all else failed.
My husband and I stayed in mid-priced or budget motels, lodges, and bed and breakfast inns, and occasionally took ferries. We didn't camp in the wilderness, but here's what we encountered regarding Wi-Fi access:
- Wi-Fi in room, worked well: 34%
- Wi-Fi in lobby or restaurant, not in room: 12%
- Intermittent Wi-Fi in room: 14%
- Wi-Fi took over 20 minutes to connect: 8%
- Used modem due to Wi-Fi failure: 6%
- Town-wide Wi-Fi outage due to storms: 4%
- Wired high-speed internet in room: 4%
- Forgot to request Wi-Fi password: 2%
- No Wi-Fi, used modem: 12%
- No internet access at all: 4%
Only about one-third of the time did Wi-Fi work smoothly in our room. Another third involved delays or inconvenience, and for the remaining third, relying solely on Wi-Fi would have left us disconnected.
In no-Wi-Fi situations, we often resorted to connecting the laptop via a phone line. In isolated areas, finding a coffeehouse with Wi-Fi was impossible, but the modem often came through. However, in Watson Lake, Yukon, even the backup plan failed as the town's phone network was down, rendering my virtual assistant unreachable. We had to wait until reaching another stop along the Alaska Highway to connect via a truck stop's Wi-Fi.
In Alaska, at a rustic lodge claiming to have Wi-Fi in the restaurant, nothing worked. The room lacked a phone line, and there was no pay phone to call my assistant, so we searched for a Wi-Fi connection in nearby towns the next day.
Thankfully, during nights without internet or while on ferries, I didn't receive angry emails demanding immediate responses.
A helpful tip: Many motel clerks seemed puzzled when I asked for "Wi-Fi," but understood when I inquired about "wireless internet." Use the longer phrase, especially outside urban areas.
By sharing these experiences, I hope fellow business travelers can better prepare for trips through less connected regions.
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