Friday, January 9, 2009 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM

Sitting in the Shade, Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM, January 9, 2009

The light is on...

This morning I took a walk in the park to try to figure out if it would worth my while to move to another site for a stronger Verizon signal and found a pretty consistent 2-3 bars on my cell phone all over the park. Nope, moving won't help.

Then I plugged the USB720 modem directly into the laptop and took it outside to walk around and see if for some reason it would pick up a signal directly that it wouldn't pick up while plugged into the router. Nope. But I got absorbed in fiddling with the VZAccess Manager software that has never worked with the modem (but I keep hoping I can fix whatever the glitch is and keep trying this & that) when I noticed the little green LED on the modem was on solid indicating it had locked on a signal. Oooh! A signal! But no access through the VZAccess Manager - I still haven't gotten that to work.

Inside I go, plug the modem back in the router and fire it up.

We're on! And cooking! This thing is really cooking!

Bye, I've got stuff to do.

Night camp

Site 7 - Oliver Lee Memorial State Park, Alamogordo NM

• Verizon cell phone service - good signal
• Verizon EVDO service - very good signal and access speed ( I have to qualify this - during my January 2008 visit the signal and access speed was excellent - in January 2009 it was practically non-existent during the day and slow at night with unpredictable short periods of excellent access)
• Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park website
• Go to Oliver Lee Memorial State Park on my Nightcamps map
• Check the weather here