Free Quartzsite Wifi Service
It may be one of the area's 'best kept secrets:' You can connect to a pretty good speed internet connection for free at the Quartzsite Public Library. Yep, it is free, but you will need to go inside with your laptop (and battery) and request the logon code.
The library is open Monday through Saturday. To get there, take the B-10 (Main Street) to Plymouth. Take Plymouth north to Quail Trail--town hall (and the library) on your right (the east side of the street).
Other internet services are available in town: rvlogon.com provides fair coverage over much of the town; the Love's Truck Stop at Exit 17 also has fee-for-service wifi available. Other little operations have been known to "pop up" during the season. We'll try and keep you posted on them as they come and go.
It's a far cry from when we "rented" space on a telephone pole from a property owner in town, had the phone company drop a wire to us, and hook up on that snail paced stuff the phone company offers. I can still recall rolling down the truck window, sticking the phone plug out the window, and settling in for a long session with the steering wheel propping up my old IBM "ThinkPad." Ah, the good old days....
The library is open Monday through Saturday. To get there, take the B-10 (Main Street) to Plymouth. Take Plymouth north to Quail Trail--town hall (and the library) on your right (the east side of the street).
Other internet services are available in town: rvlogon.com provides fair coverage over much of the town; the Love's Truck Stop at Exit 17 also has fee-for-service wifi available. Other little operations have been known to "pop up" during the season. We'll try and keep you posted on them as they come and go.
It's a far cry from when we "rented" space on a telephone pole from a property owner in town, had the phone company drop a wire to us, and hook up on that snail paced stuff the phone company offers. I can still recall rolling down the truck window, sticking the phone plug out the window, and settling in for a long session with the steering wheel propping up my old IBM "ThinkPad." Ah, the good old days....
posted by Russ and Tiña De Maris at
1:54 PM
6 Comments:
For all you folks that don't have your own computer, there is a FREE service at the Quartzsie library!
They have 13 computers inside for general public use. There is a 30 minute limit, unless it's not busy.
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R. Kirkpatrick, at December 11, 2007 1:23 PM
Having never been to Quartzite, Is there Celular service around anywhere? I have a Verizon Air Card and it works on Verizon like DSL. Anybody use Verizon and do they get service anywhere that you can (and would want to) Camp?
By
melyash, at January 7, 2008 8:22 AM
We also have a Verizon pc card, as well as Verizon cell phones. We get excellent service with both in Quartzsite.
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R. Kirkpatrick, at January 7, 2008 3:28 PM
I'm glad to know about the library. Too late for this year...
We wound up going to the Flying J, several miles west of Quartzsite at exit 1 on I-10 near Ehrenburg. They have free wi-fi, but its a pretty good distance from Quartzsite. The Flying J was very crowded, with a long line of vehicles waiting to get to the pumps; as there were a lot of people from California crossing the border to fill up on the considerably cheaper (40-60 cents less) gas in Arizona
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Anonymous, at January 8, 2008 1:44 PM
Free wifi at the Flying J? Wow, that's a new one. Most J's charge a few dollars for a 24-hour log in, at least if you want to access the internet. You can look at the Flying J site for free.
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Russ and Tiña De Maris, at January 8, 2008 6:42 PM
Well, anyway, it was something that we could connect to from the Flying J parking lot, without a charge. We were able to get the NOAA weather site and see what the weather was over our travel route. Actually, you may be right. It seems the site called "Flying J" with 5 bars didn't connect well, but there was another site with 2 bars, called something else, that came right up. We assummed it came from Flying J, because there is almost nothing else around there...
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Anonymous, at January 9, 2008 7:17 AM
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