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Texas State Parks Offer Wi-Fi

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tough-to-take-a-vacation dept.

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."

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  1. Cool! by natron+2.0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a Texas resident and an avid camper, I think this is great! There has been many time I have been camping and wondered what else there is to see and do in the local area. Sure one would argue that you could go to the lodge and collect a bunch of tourist pamphlets, or you could sit in your tent or at the picnic table and check the local weather and current fishing and river conditions or even post first on /.

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  2. Re:Free? by Davak · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

    Great! That's exactly what I want...

    "Hey, dad, is that a long-necked gray glacksmale hawk on that wi-fi tower over there?"

    Honestly though, you know what will really happen?

    a- Spammers will hit the open access points to flood their product onto the net.
    b- Kids will steal as many access points as possible.
    c- Tax payers will wonder what the hell they are doing putting wi-fi out in the middle of nowhere instead of giving wi-fi to rural Texas... where it might actually improve quality of life.

    I am a wi-fi fan-boy... but what the hell?