wifi access whle cruising

Will-C":q5p01k8q said:
Casey,
We just did the Trent Severn. You can get a small phone plan for phone calls through your current carrier. But make sure to turn your phones data off. Otherwise you will pay wild roaming charges. Almost every marina, even waterside restaurants offer pretty decent FREE Wi-Fi. Tim Horton's a great coffee chain all usually have WIFI. They are most everywhere as are the TD banks. If you follow active captain's suggestion about using a router to set up a secure private network which would make it secure. Otherwise just don't do any banking or things that you feel require a secure network. Another thing we did was open a TD bank checking account here in the states. Your TD bank ATM card will work up there at TD banks like a champ up $760 per day withdraws. The transaction slip will not show you a balance is the only thing that could be improved. The exchange rate is excellent because TD is a Canadian owned bank. When you get back you walk right back into any TD bank and they will convert any of the Canadian plastic bills (yes they are plastic) back to U.S. dollars and put it right back into your checking account in U.S. dollars. They won't convert any Canadian coins back to U.S. coins. So you can unload all the coins before you leave. Hang on for crazy fuel prices. Alcohol is about double. Most marinas are in the 50 dollar a might range. The people up there are the nicest we have run into so far in our different trips to Canada. I think it cost about 123 dollars for a one way passage on the Trent Severn. Get your height of the boat on a trailer figured out in meters as approaching under passes and trying to do a feet to metric conversion can get exciting. If you like beer try a Rickert's Red. It's a beautiful trip.
D.D.
Click to expand...

I just spent 6 weeks in Canada, (Vancouver Island) and loved every minute EXCEPT for phone service and connectivity. Surprised where I had service, and not surprised to not have service in much of my travel.

Tim Horton's -- Most are open 24/7 and have wifi.
Broughton and Desolation Sound marinas were less than $50 for a 22 foot C-Dory.
What is TD bank? Don't remember seeing that.

I used a Verizon global plan, Paid for talk minutes overage, but had unlimited text. Minimum data.1 gig, for the trip.

If you buy a phone in Canada, be sure you know what it will cost you to call back into the States with it. That becomes an international call.

Still thinking about going back to smoke signals, but then, this time of year they would get all confused with the fire smoke.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

1_10_2012_from_Canon_961.highlight.jpg
 
You can Google TD Bank but maybe the are more prevent on the eastern side of Canada. We got as far west as Little Current on the North Channel they had a branch there.
D.D.
 
FreedomPop was over billing our account and I filed a charge back.
The account is cancelled and purchased a Verizon Jetpack
 
We pulled the plug on Freedom Pop also. Poor customer service in my opinion if you could get any at all. price changes, changed billing cycles. Game Over. Our Verizon Ellipsis Jet Pack works like a champ. No funny business.
D.D.
 
In 2011, we were on our America Great Loop trip and bought a rocket stick from Rogers Communications. We spent about $1 per MByte of data. Expensive-- but had access to Internet almost everywhere in eastern Ca

This week we are returning to SC from our trip to Alaska, now in Billings. We used Verison with a monthly upgrade to our plan. They partner with Telus in the Yukon and Rogers in BC and Alberta. They offered a charge of $5 for limited data. It took us a bit over a week to journey through Ca and we used the Internet sparingly so I am anxious to see if that $5 offer holds up. But, for now, it seems like the best option. /Larry Hayden/
 
In 2011, we were on our America Great Loop trip and bought a rocket stick from Rogers Communications. We spent about $1 per MByte of data. Expensive-- but had access to Internet almost everywhere in eastern Ca

This week we are returning to SC from our trip to Alaska, now in Billings. We used Verison with a monthly upgrade to our plan. They partner with Telus in the Yukon and Rogers in BC and Alberta. They offered a charge of $5 for limited data. It took us a bit over a week to journey through Ca and we used the Internet sparingly so I am anxious to see if that $5 offer holds up. But, for now, it seems like the best option. /Larry Hayden/
 
Back
Top