Texas State Parks Offer Wi-Fi

digrieze writes "Here's a story raising a holiday ruckus. Texas has started providing free Wi-Fi service at state parks, causing friction with the 'get away from it all' crew. Looks like a nice place to vacation to me."

Comments

Free?

[AlexTheBeast]

The service will be free in the five Texas parks for three months; then TengoInternet, the wireless provider, will charge about $15 a day.

Err... doesn't exactly sound all that "free" to me.

"Hence, in order to have good coverage, you need to put antennas all over the park."

Just to prevent the future fires that the spelling police will start.

Antennas is correct when talking electronics.
Antennae is correct when talking biology.
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The list

[sh00z]

The article doesn't mention it, but the parks are: Choke Canyon State Park (Calliham) near Three Rivers, Blanco State Park near Blanco, Balmorhea State Park near Toyahvale, Goose Island State Park near Rockport, and Ray Roberts Lake State Park (Isle du Bois) near Pilot Point. Reference: http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/news/news/041220b.phtm l

Complaints about it already

[moofdaddy]

I work for the texas state park and let me tell you how not happy people really are about this new service. What the article did not report was that we recieved a petition from 500 "naturalists" saying how strongly they object to this.

Naturally, we did what any good goverment body would do when handed a petition, we threw it away.

Bottem line is that technology is good and that this is going to make our lives and everyone else who uses the park but is not crazy, lives easier.

Progress is a good thing!!