How about internet acces?

True, after years of daily internet-ing, I survived last summer with a couple minutes a week. *** Edited 2/7/2006 8:28:19 PM UTC by Rider***

It would be easy to get hi speed internet contrary to what you are all saying. The cost may be ehh but im sure they could get a discount. But heres what you do... You get the local cable company (i dont know who it is) but they hook up one internet connection to a modem in a central location for the dorms/appartments and one of them contain a rack full of switches (each port amplifys the connection to every computer so you get the full bandwith) and have them span out to every room and everyone have a hookup. (if hotels and schools that have a couple thousand computers can do it so can cedar point)

Approximately how many rooms in each building?

But its a little easier then you guys are making it out to be. Now so i dont get "yelled at" I did say that cost would not be easy. But the process is easy.

Just a thought since someone brought it up
edit: or the alternative is to just hookup a wireless access point to every floor and let it span to the computers on a floor by floor basis *** Edited 2/7/2006 9:05:07 PM UTC by cedarpoint24/7***

There's still quite a few citizens of this country that don't even own a computer, let alone have internet access.

I just can't see Cedar Point actually having every room wired up for internet. The wiring would be the cheap part. It's the bandwidth that would be expensive as all get out. Bandwidth is not cheap by any means (We spend well over $40,000 a month alone on bandwidth at work)

Also, the cost of administration, routing and supporting all of that would be another large cost.
*** Edited 2/9/2006 11:10:13 PM UTC by bholcomb***

i just said cost would not be easy!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well. I know...

But they eventually will have to. Few more years we will have better technology. Especially since as im typing this everything is changing. But cedar point is no way going to go bankrupt for manymany years. so eventualy they will WILL wire for internet but probably not soon.

especially not in my time to have a chance to work there. i might have one season in 07 after that im going on to CCNA and possibly CCNP (cisco certified network associate and i still dont know what the NP means) But im in 11th grade and 16 ill be graduated next year and be 17 so yes i can work there and no they wont be wired for internet. i can almost gaurentee it!

Plus as stated before this job is not so much for the money as it is for friends and to get away for a summer.

edit: and we all know to get in to the park free!!!!!!!!!!! ;) *** Edited 2/10/2006 2:39:30 AM UTC by cedarpoint24/7***

Cedar Point probably already owns a high speed line (T1 or perhaps dual T1, perhaps T3)

If they do, it shouldn't be hard to add access...

either way, I love my Sprint EVDO tethering with my laptop :)

Hopefully Sandusky will be covered with EVDO by May! *** Edited 2/10/2006 5:16:23 AM UTC by cedarpointr0x***

You have no idea about how much bandwidth would be required to give lets say 10% of the 3000 (that's 300 people) internet access do you? Especially when the target audience is young adults.

Do you know how saturated a T1 would be on an average night about an hour after closing? Yikes!

I think things have gotten better in the past year or two, but it used to take like a minute+ to process credit card transactions a few years back during the day at the park. I don't have any insider information or anything, but I would assume that their internet connection was already saturated at that point.

By the way, certifications really don't mean dick nowadays it seems. That's just my personal experience. Nobody gives a crap that I've gone out and gotten a handfull of certifications.

But I still stand by my statement that wiring the building(s) are cheap. You can hire any teenage schmuck to do most of the work. It's not rocket science to tone a few lines, run a few fluke tests and patch some cables. *** Edited 2/10/2006 10:06:06 AM UTC by bholcomb***

Ah yes- filtering may help with that ;) blocking ports too.

Ben, they could charge rooms per month to activate their lines. That way those who want it can use it, those who don't can't, and it would help off-set the bandwidth costs. Plus, a couple filters that block bandwidth hogs like streaming media would help too.

JuggaLotus said:
Ben, they could charge rooms per month to activate their lines. That way those who want it can use it, those who don't can't, and it would help off-set the bandwidth costs. Plus, a couple filters that block bandwidth hogs like streaming media would help too.

more along the lines I was thinking but i couldnt put it in words. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

Never thought about that, but then how cost -effective would it be? How many people would actually pay for it?

I cant give numbers but the number is growing rapidly. I can tell you that much.

Well, consider it another way for Cedar Point to reclaim employee's money. Nice.

There were a few times last summer when I wished for internet access in my room, especially because I always seemed to get back to Commons after the Rec Center was closed. But I don't know how much I'd be willing to pay for it. I never had to wait more than about 5 minutes for a computer after they added a bunch of extra ones to the Rec. Frankly, you're never in your room for very long other than to sleep at CP. It probably wouldn't be worth the cost to me. Plus, then I'd have to bring my own computer. Not only does that carry a risk of theft, but in those tiny Commons dorms it can make things even more cramped.

It was actually nice to live for a few months without being tied to a computer. Didn't know and didn't care much about what was going on in the outside world. The access was there if I wanted to expend a little effort to get it, but I found that I got on quite well enough without constantly being logged onto AIM, etc.

Uh, a T1 Line is PHONE and DATA on a line. So I can completely understand why credit card machines would of had issues. Even if it wasn't with new technology I would have no problem believeing that Cedar Point possibly has access to a creditcard server somewhere that processes creditcards. Although I've never heard of this sort of thing I can see it being possible.

One of the things I cherish about VISITING Cedar Point is the lack of internet access. LIVING there would probably be a whole can of different nuts.

MrScott

There's a lot of internet credit card gateways.

I am a bit confused. I think a post was edited/deleted.

I would be lost without the internet. ;)