Tengointernet

[the smit]

More and more campgrounds are using Tengonet to provide Wi-Fi services. Here at Circle M campground the system is only poor to fair. The cost ranges from $4.95 per day to $220 per year. However I found that by using Boingo for $9.95 per month I can get the same lousy service for half price since it uses Tengonet's infrastructure. Plus Boingo gives you Wi-Fi at many other locations at no additional cost. this may be worth looking into if you don't need the reliability and speed of satelite, Verizon, T Mobile etc.

[hamguy]

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Originally Posted by the smit More and more campgrounds are using Tengonet to provide Wi-Fi services. Here at Circle M campground the system is only poor to fair. The cost ranges from $4.95 per day to $220 per year. However I found that by using Boingo for $9.95 per month I can get the same lousy service for half price since it uses Tengonet's infrastructure. Plus Boingo gives you Wi-Fi at many other locations at no additional cost. this may be worth looking into if you don't need the reliability and speed of satelite, Verizon, T Mobile etc.

Tengo is the same as a virus. They are overpriced to near userous terms. I have NEVER been under their service where it worked even 1/4 of the time.

AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE!

[Route 66]

My experience with Tengo has been, they are the best example of a bad example.

[Bounder4rfun]

We got involved with this wifi in Verginia Beach KOA and boy was it a joke. They got me for $4.95 for one day for low, low status, and lost signal so bad I could not close out the charge. Stayed at several more KOAs that had it but was free of charge. Still would lose connection every few minutes and then reconnect. Sorry excuse for a wifi provider and when you complain to KOA they say they have no controle over tengointernet.

[RJay]

I've have Tengo for the last 5 mos. I put my verizon data card to sleep until the end of October. I've had no problems thus far except that I've had to sign in way too many times for service. The service is provided by the RV park and it's included in the parks rates. The service is just as fast or faster than my verizon air card. I am about 100 ft LOS(line of sight) of the WiFi antenna.

[hamguy]

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Originally Posted by Bounder4rfun We got involved with this wifi in Verginia Beach KOA and boy was it a joke. They got me for $4.95 for one day for low, low status, and lost signal so bad I could not close out the charge. Stayed at several more KOAs that had it but was free of charge. Still would lose connection every few minutes and then reconnect. Sorry excuse for a wifi provider and when you complain to KOA they say they have no controle over tengointernet.

I was at a park (NOT KOA) with tengo. I pointed out to the owner/manager that he could set up a system and bypass the poison that is Tengo. In addition it would cost him less than what he was paying now trhereby putting more $ in his pocket. Of course, he could do as most everyone else does and that is provide the service for $0 and make his customers very happy. I stopped in there later in the year and they had switched. He thanked me for giving him the straight poop. Much fewer and when he did have a problem, the fix was basically instantaneous.

[Blue74]

When I first movied to my RV park it was good and fast but in the last 2 years it has gone down hill so that i have a aircard and use it now.

[frankdamp]

We came across Tengo for the first time in Roseburg, OR last week. In the evening, after we checked in, the (free) service worked quite well. The following morning at around 08:30, it was so slow that IE8 kept tripping off. It might have been the difference between daytime and after dark radio propagation.

We were in a CG a couple of weeks ago in Ellensburg, WA, that was part of a hotel and Flying J plaza complex. They advertise free wifi in the TL directory, but we couldn't hook up to it that evening.

The next morning, DW was still having trouble getting hooked up when the 32' fiver next to us pulled out. Instant "very good" signal strength. It turned out the system was primarily for hotel guests and the its antenna was on the roof of the 2-story hotel. Once our neigbor moved it was fine, but we left just an hour after he did.

At a KOA in Lincoln City OR, we found a very good system - network named after the CG, good strong signal (better than my home wifi). If that's typical of KOA, we might visit more often, though we prefer State Parks or COE over private CGs because of the bigger spaces between sites.

[NeilV]

Tengo only works at the parks that provide it while the $40 a month unlimited bandwidth 3G Virgin MiFi works between parks and at home for me.

I was able to get good connections from Tengo and decent speed by not using the built-in WiFi in my laptop as it was not up to the task. The Hawkings External Parabolic WiFi adapter made Tengo much more usable at the distances and with all the various interferences found at campgrounds. Just sight the closest WiFi antenna, point the dish at it and all was well with a good strong signal. I was even able to use the free WiFi from most rec centers, by-passing the Tengo Fees, at most campgrounds that had free WiFi in the building.