{"id":1268,"date":"2009-01-14T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T21:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:10:53","slug":"thrilled-to-be-back-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/thrilled-to-be-back-online\/","title":{"rendered":"THRILLED to be Back Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Rio by rosalindgardner, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosalindgardner\/3197262410\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3301\/3197262410_8b85d4d7d5_m.jpg\" alt=\"Rio\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>OMG, I'm connected to the Internet! Hurray!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Imagine being an Internet marketer at an affiliate marketing conference and not having an Internet connection from your hotel room for 5 days.<\/p>\n<p>Are you feeling my pain? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Yup, despite paying $12.95 twice and $9.95 once, the Lodgenet service at the Rio was pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Despite spending more than an hour on the phone with Lodgenet and having the ticket escalated to Level 3, the connection speed was <strong>never more than 2Kbps<\/strong>. I even changed rooms hoping to access the wireless that some folks reporting picking up, but I had no such luck.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Twitter is a light load, so I logged on a couple of times to tweet, but the connection was never sufficient to log into the Administration panel of my blog.<\/p>\n<p>UGH.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now at McCarran International Airport with 5-bar FREE wireless and dancing for joy at having just uploaded my <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/rosalindgardner\/sets\/72157612315014965\/\">Affiliate Summit West '09 conference pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p>Affiliate Summit highlights to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/affiliatesummit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shareasale.com\/image\/468x15-me.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OMG, I&#8217;m connected to the Internet! Hurray!!!! Imagine being an Internet marketer at an affiliate marketing conference and not having an Internet connection from your hotel room for 5 days. Are you feeling my pain? \ud83d\ude42 Yup, despite paying $12.95 twice and $9.95 once, the Lodgenet service at the Rio was pathetic. 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