Don't senior communities have the internet?

Not sure what you mean by community ... but I'm in an apartment of my own, and can choice to have whatever I want to pay for.
The complex doesn't supply free services to TV or Internet in each apartment.

However, in the main business building, they have a library that has free access to several computers if a person chooses.
Also the Community Center has a large screen TV, and movies available to take and watch any time of the day.
Movies, like the books in the library, are there to take on the honor system.
 

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I received an ad in the mail from T-Mobile that they will have wireless internet.
 

Manatee said:
Senior communities are very different from each other. You have to check them out individually.
Some have communal computers in a common room much like the local public library. For me that would be unacceptable, I have a desktop computer, a flat bed scanner, a printer, a web cam, stereo speakers, and a 27" monitor.
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What about a hearing aid?
 
Sunny said:
Too risky? Why? Of course, by now they probably all have wi-fi. Everyone has at least a cell phone.
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Using public wi-fi to bank online or to use your debit or credit card for online purchases is a good way to find that your accounts have been hacked. You might get lucky and it won't happen to you. Or "It hasn't happened and I've been using it for years" should be modified to read "It hasn't happened yet and I've been using it for years".
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Using public wi-fi to bank online or to use your debit or credit card for online purchases is a good way to find that your accounts have been hacked. You might get lucky and it won't happen to you. Or "It hasn't happened and I've been using it for years" should be modified to read "It hasn't happened yet and I've been using it for years".
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Agreed. I don't handle any banking, purchasing or other sensitive matters on my phone. Only access them through my home computer via an ethernet connection (my computer's wifi ability is turned off) and use complex, unique passwords. When I must look at those websites during travel, I use mobile data (no wifi) on my phone to create a hotspot on my laptop via a tether.

If I lived in a community setting I'd get my own wifi set up.
 
Tara said:
Don t senior communities have wifi? I need the internet?
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The last time my wife and I were Stateside we saw, at a roadside motel, free wifi. My good lady interpreted that as free wife. I said:"be careful, with every free wifi, comes a free, mother-in-law-i. Neither of us have ever grasped the concept of wifi, nor have we, become familiar with inter-connected-smart-phones. This despite that both of our phones are able to connect to the internet. We are just not as smart as our phones, we can't work out how!
 
I have never done banking online on the theory that "if it ain't there, they can't hack it".

I flinch when I get a message that I will get an "update".
 
Most assisted living facilities have basic internet and tv. I know for the fact that Elm York, Madison York Rego Park and Madison York Corona have it.
 

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