Touring the US: WIFI-advice needed!?

Here's one site to get you started.

Well, if you can afford to drive an RV that far with what gas is going for over here these days (although it shouldn't be as bad a month from now with the hurricane recovery farther along), price may not be much of an object, but free Wi-Fi is becoming pretty much ubiquitous nationwide so you shouldn't have much problem finding it. Check out this website to see what's available along your planned route:

Have fun and good luck!

Good site, but very incomplete. I just added three free hot spots in my own city (95014), and those are ones I happen to know off the top of my head, there are many more I'm sure.

But the bottom line is that the original poster should not have any trouble finding free hot spots.

Was looking at costs of internet access at other various countries besides the US and see they get usually get charged by the amount that is downloaded instead of a flat fee. Maybe that is why people are a little more careful with who leeches of their networks overseas and don't have it out there for free like most neighborhoods here in the US.

If you're traveling through Iowa, all of the rest areas have free wifi now. I used it on a recent trip to Colorado from Illinois. It worked great!

alien

It seems like free wi-fi is very much a U.S. phenomena. I read one of the U.K. newsgroups, and it appears to be almost non-existent in the U.K. or Europe, kind of like free refills on coffee. Cell phone rates are also at least 2x what we pay over here, when you factor in the extra cost of calling a cell phone from a landline, or from a different cell carrier.

Makes sense, I guess. Geez, paying by the amount that is downloaded is so 20th century.