Sue/Al said:
Why would you pay? especially flying j? when there is FREE FREE FREE everywhere...that's the point of this discussion that's been going on, many TA's are FREE (the WiFi) well we're retired and I pride myself on the fact that I get everything especially for our PC's for FREE, all the great programs installed on our PC's are FREE, only thing we pay for is dial-up at home for $16.95 and it's Terrific! we even dial-up 2 at a time, pay for one.
The main reason for paying Flying-J is that I'm going to be spending some nights at Flying-J's on my trip west, I can buy a month's access for 20 bucks (and use half of it) The west bound plan goes something like this, Leg 1....
Leave Detroit at some oh-dark-30 hour (IE, 2-4 am) stop at Meijer's on Michigan in Jackson and drop the towed, Pick up any last second supplies, lock on the auto-tracking Sat antenna and call DISH to activate my receiver, Pick up 3rd party who will be traveling with us, re-hook towed and continue west. Sometime later in the day pull into Flying-J service center in Indianappolis, IN, dinner, night, breakfast, refule fill fresh water tank, head on s.w.
When the day starts to get long,, Find another flying J, drain and re-fill the tank (this time w/o the bleach), dinner, fuel and breakfast once again. Continue more westernley, once we hit AZ I need to make a left and drop down to Yuma for a bit,,,, After that I won't be needing free-wi-fi any more
Oh, just a side note: Went to the airport (DTW) to pick up darling daughter and beau Sat Morning,,,Well, I needed to call Beau and guess what.. I'd left my phone at home, Wife's phone was in car w/me but her phone does not know many phone numbers (She refuses to learn how to use it's built in phone book) So, I figured "Why not log on and see if I can find his last call to me on the cell provider's web site" Great idea, Had a good strong signal to the laptop, but when the log-in page showed up they wanted 16.95 for a one day connection (Exit browser very fast)
Then I remembered I'd backed up my phone on this laptop... I was able to open the phone's phone book on the laptop and copy the number to my wife's phone by the eye-finger copy method