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Texas Adding Wi-Fi To Highways

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Texas Adding Wi-Fi To Highways
State First To Offer Roadside Internet Access

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas' aging rest areas are getting a high-tech makeover.

The Texas Department of Transportation is adding free wireless Internet access to them.

TxDOT is accepting bids for installing the hotspot hardware at the state's 84 rest areas and 12 travel information centers.

TxDOT began experimenting with a few hotspots in last fall.

State officials believe Texas will be the first state to provide such free access at rest areas.

Many of the state's rest stops haven't been updated in 50 years.
 
whoa, that's pretty cool...now i have an incentive to take actual rest stops when driving from city to city. although, what was that saying about rest stops from "something about mary?" heh...
 
oh boy ... lets just see how many folks try to surf on their laptops or pdas while in traffic.

They're installing it at the rest stops. You'd have to surf fast to get in on it while in traffic as you pass the rest stop.
 
Originally posted by: allisolm
oh boy ... lets just see how many folks try to surf on their laptops or pdas while in traffic.

They're installing it at the rest stops. You'd have to surf fast to get in on it while in traffic as you pass the rest stop.
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sorry didnt read it carefully. i think i need coffee.
 
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
why austin? if they really wanted to impress people it would need to be on the state line rest stops. They get thousands of visitors every day.
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Huh? What about Austin? It said every rest stop in the state...
 
Most modern rest stops have cameras at them and I certainly hope that they will make use of the internet connection to have streaming cameras for this type of thing.

BTW, I stopped at a rest stop in Montana and it had dozens of RJ-45 jacks. I really needed internet access so I tried every single port hoping that maybe they left one on by accident or something. Every single one was dead. I had high hopes though....
 
Originally posted by: Roger
The rest stops are going to be a hackers paradise.
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Nah, state troopers will shoot them. Hell, they shoot people who don't stop to be pulled over.
 
Sweet, now I have to get the parabolic antenna goining so that I can get signal between rest stops.

-MC
 
Yes yes yes... soon the latest PCCards will cost as much as the cheap NICs nowadays... can't wait.
 
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
That's awesome. Can you imagine the possibilities if they make a 'There's Something About Mary 2'?
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Thanks, I couldn't remember the name of the movie with that gag😀

Next step is streaming web cams of the activities😀
 
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
That's awesome. Can you imagine the possibilities if they make a 'There's Something About Mary 2'?
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Thanks, I couldn't remember the name of the movie with that gag😀

Next step is streaming web cams of the activities😀
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WTH are you guys talking about?

And Roger, it's a little early for beer... Get some help dude. 😉 😀
 
why austin? if they really wanted to impress people it would need to be on the state line rest stops. They get thousands of visitors every day.

They aren't providing it in Austin. They're providing it at the rest stops, including the state line rest stops.
Can no one read any more? :Q 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
maybe they will have PC-cards or CF wifi adapters and bluetooth adapters in the vending machines :beer:
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I know I'd be the first guy to have his get hung on the little ring. So I start shaking the machine, and I'm backing up to really tackle it, when the state trooper shoots me.
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
That's awesome. Can you imagine the possibilities if they make a 'There's Something About Mary 2'?
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Thanks, I couldn't remember the name of the movie with that gag😀

Next step is streaming web cams of the activities😀
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WTH are you guys talking about?

And Roger, it's a little early for beer... Get some help dude. 😉 😀
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Meet Ted's inattentive shrink. Seated behind his woebegone patient, this shrink sneaks out to get a bite to eat. While he's gone, Ted tells of his deep feelings for Mary. As the shrink secretly returns, Ted mentions a rest stop on the highway, whereupon the shrink?out of the blue?says "Highway rest areas are the bath houses of the 90s for many gay men."

"What did you say?" asks Ted.

"We'll delve into that next week," the inattentive shrink assures him, bringing the hour to its close.

There is, in fact, an unexpected rest area raid in Mary. Twenty men with pants at half mast scatter under the glare of searchlights. Ted, after illegally picking up a hitchhiker, tells South Carolina's police: "I didn't solicit sex." The cops, like their fellow rubes in New York and Los Angeles, beat him up anyway
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Yeah I knew the movie, I didn't remember that part.

Thanks for linking to gaytoday... lol. I've never seen that site in my life.

BTW, if rest areas are the bath houses of the 90s, then what are the bath houses? Because they're still around...
 
I stopped at the brand new reststop right outside of Vernon, TX this past Christmas. It had the free Wi-Fi all ready to go. It was pretty fast too.
 
Originally posted by: Viper0329
I stopped at the brand new reststop right outside of Vernon, TX this past Christmas. It had the free Wi-Fi all ready to go. It was pretty fast too.
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Oooh yeah, that one's nice. Now if the damn highway patrol would not give me tickets there, it would be awsome.
 
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