Phone and Internet
There is a phone at the Lodge for guest use. Local and long distance calls are free. It is not an actual landline, but a Verizon wireless home phone system.
There is now internet with WiFi at the Lodge! It is T-Mobile Home Internet, with approximately 65 Mbps down with a 40 ms ping (for the non-techies, that's really good!). You can now browse and Zoom from the Lodge, as well as stream to your heart's content. We've installed a ROKU stick on the living room TV, so you can log in to your Netflix, Amazon, etc account. We will be upgrading the bedroom TV to a ROKU TV soon. If you want to bring your own streaming device and connect it to one of the TVs, feel free to do so.
Your cell phone may or may not work at the Lodge. Please refer to the notes below for a somewhat subjective evaluation of service by various carriers.
Verizon – Excellent voice and data coverage. Data rates are quite good (over a megabit), but not as good as in the city).
Sprint – Voice service spotty to OK. Data service fair, usually 600-700 kbps.
AT&T – Poor connectivity for both voice and data. Sometimes the data works, and is about 700Kbps, but sometimes it doesn’t.
T-Mobile – Voice works well, and the LTE data works well also.
You can find free public WiFi at the Astor Library about 5 miles from the cabin if you need it.
There is a phone at the Lodge for guest use. Local and long distance calls are free. It is not an actual landline, but a Verizon wireless home phone system.
There is now internet with WiFi at the Lodge! It is T-Mobile Home Internet, with approximately 65 Mbps down with a 40 ms ping (for the non-techies, that's really good!). You can now browse and Zoom from the Lodge, as well as stream to your heart's content. We've installed a ROKU stick on the living room TV, so you can log in to your Netflix, Amazon, etc account. We will be upgrading the bedroom TV to a ROKU TV soon. If you want to bring your own streaming device and connect it to one of the TVs, feel free to do so.
Your cell phone may or may not work at the Lodge. Please refer to the notes below for a somewhat subjective evaluation of service by various carriers.
Verizon – Excellent voice and data coverage. Data rates are quite good (over a megabit), but not as good as in the city).
Sprint – Voice service spotty to OK. Data service fair, usually 600-700 kbps.
AT&T – Poor connectivity for both voice and data. Sometimes the data works, and is about 700Kbps, but sometimes it doesn’t.
T-Mobile – Voice works well, and the LTE data works well also.
You can find free public WiFi at the Astor Library about 5 miles from the cabin if you need it.