Internet Service Provider

**Nomad** · 10-20-2005, 04:49 PM

We are coming to Seagrove in a few weeks to spend our winter and are looking for an ISP with a local dial-up access number. We used Z-technology last year and it worked fine but have not been able to find their website. Fear they may have gone out of business. All recommendations would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

**CastlesOfSand** · 10-20-2005, 04:52 PM

We used CityNet 850-785-1969

**TreeFrog** · 10-20-2005, 05:26 PM

Earthlink has a Seagrove access number, not to mention hundreds of others. 850-468-0020.

There are getting to be a number of public wireless access points. On the east end of 30A, you've got the wine bar in Rosemary and the new Alyce Beach coffee shop. There should be something in Seaside, I'm just not personally aware of it.

A fair number of beach rentals have unsecured wireless routers, if you're into that sort of thing. I pick up (but prefer not to connect to) 2 to 4 of them at my house, depending on weather and whether they're powered up.

**pk305** · 10-24-2005, 09:36 PM

(850) 231-6966 - info@web30a.com
Located in the Lakewood Towne Center
5399 E Co. Hwy. 30-A
Seagrove Beach, Florida 32459

Great service (dial-up)
and very convenient!!
Highly recommend!

Have a wonderful winter in Seagrove!!

**Beach Runner** · 10-24-2005, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by TreeFrog

Earthlink has a Seagrove access number, not to mention hundreds of others. 850-468-0020.

There are getting to be a number of public wireless access points. On the east end of 30A, you've got the wine bar in Rosemary and the new Alyce Beach coffee shop. There should be something in Seaside, I'm just not personally aware of it.

A fair number of beach rentals have unsecured wireless routers, if you're into that sort of thing. I pick up (but prefer not to connect to) 2 to 4 of them at my house, depending on weather and whether they're powered up.

I keep picking up my neighbor's wireless at my primary residence. I get a stronger signal from his than mine, and our lots are fairly large. I went wardriving just for grins on Saturday. Every neighbor had a wireless except for the rich old biddy next door.

We can pick up several neighbors' wireless networks at the beach as well, but I disable my wireless card for security reasons. I have some smart neighbors at the beach; my neighbors in GA just have money and aren't very tech-savvy, so I don't need to worry about security with them.

One of our neighbors at the beach has Sprint. He loves it. We're switching. We have Web30a, but dialup makes me want to claw my eyeballs out. It was really a negative factor when on several occasions this summer we were trying to decide whether or not to board up, and downloading all of the graphics was just too slow.

**ecopal** · 10-25-2005, 09:00 AM

how does Sprint compare to Mediacom high speed internet?
Is it as fast?
how is the support?
what is the cost?
thanks

**TreeFrog** · 10-25-2005, 10:34 AM

I can't compare Sprint to Mediacom - haven't seen the latter. Sprint is DSL, so it's serviceably quick and easily beats dialup. But Sprint's DSL in Seagrove is visibly slower than what I've experienced on DSL in urban areas. Sprint is affiliated with Earthlink - we got Earthlink EMail addresses when we signed up. I have to say I've been impressed with Earthlink's dialup speed when I find myself on the road and forced to use it for the lack of anything else. Way better than what I had with Compuserve back in the dark ages.

**Beach Runner** · 10-25-2005, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by ecopal

how does Sprint compare to Mediacom high speed internet?
Is it as fast?
how is the support?
what is the cost?
thanks

Our neighbor has had both and much prefers Sprint. Maybe he'll drop in on the board and explain why.

**OhioBeachBum** · 10-26-2005, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by Beach Runner

I keep picking up my neighbor's wireless at my primary residence. I get a stronger signal from his than mine, and our lots are fairly large. I went wardriving just for grins on Saturday. Every neighbor had a wireless except for the rich old biddy next door.

I'm still amazed at the number of folks who just drop those things in their homes (particularly when latched onto a high speed internet channel) without even the most fundamental security...

Originally Posted by Beach Runner

We can pick up several neighbors' wireless networks at the beach as well, but I disable my wireless card for security reasons. I have some smart neighbors at the beach; my neighbors in GA just have money and aren't very tech-savvy, so I don't need to worry about security with them.

You can set up a separate (bootable) partition with just the OS, browser, AV and firewall - no critical data - for use when you're mobile. As long as you're not moving any of your own data about - just general browsing, not much risk...

**Beach Runner** · 10-26-2005, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by OhioBeachBum

You can set up a separate (bootable) partition with just the OS, browser, AV and firewall - no critical data - for use when you're mobile. As long as you're not moving any of your own data about - just general browsing, not much risk...

I know. Just haven't gone to the trouble.