Getting Connected (Laramie, Rock Springs, Rawlins: estate, medicine, house)

[bzbzlady]

I was wondering if anyone is aware of the availability of internet, satellite tv and cell phone services in the area between Rock river and medicine Bow.

[RockyMtnr]

Buzzy, didn't want to leave you without an answer and though this isn't my "area", I'll offer some suggestions.
Rock Springs is in Sweetwater County
Medicine Bow is in Carbon County but nearly to the west border of Albany County.
Medicine Bow is closer to Rawlins (Carbon) and Laramie (Albany). Rock Springs is approx 110 miles west of Rawlins and Laramie is nearly the same distance east of Rawlins.
Cell-phone service is notoriously poor in my SW part of Wyoming, 200 miles away from Rawlins - but do a yellow-page search of all three counties and it may provide clues you're looking for. There is usually only one cable-provider for most areas. Hope my tidbit helps you in your quest.

[shadowwalker]

ROCK RIVER is east of Medicine bow. I think your best bet would be either dial up with phone service or check out the satelite t v companies. Most have some form of internet that is through their companies or in conjunction with their services.

[RockyMtnr]

ShadowWalker, thanks for the correction - I misread.

[MHT]

Your best bet for internet is satellite. There are many people around here that use it. Dial-up is also available but is very, very slow. Cell phone service is poor in that area. Most people in WY have verizon as it covers most of the state the best. Check websites of cell phone providers and they will have maps of coverage.

[bzbzlady]

Thank you all for the information. I really appreciate the quick responses! If anyone has any info that they think will be valuable please let me know. We will be staying in our 5th wheel when we start building and everything will be a new experience for us! Happy Holidays!

[shadowwalker]

So, your staying in a fifth wheel. Let me give you some help with it.Maybe. First, if your going through winter there. If it is newer the water pipes probably won't be exposed. If you can see them. Put a heat tape on them, put it on like the directions say. Wrap it with as much insulation as possible. Next get the trailer skirting all the way around. Make it secure into the ground and onto the trailer. Do ALL this before the last day of August.
If your not going to be in it through the winter. Go out and select the trailer site. Think of these things. When it rains can I get around good. The mud/clay will stick to stuff like shoes/ tires/ you when you fall. Make a good deck to put stuff on or take off shoes or just sit on and look at the great state of wyoming. A light rain will make the first few inches of the ground wet as snot, and you will just learn to deal with it. Next cut all the weeds, sagebrush, ect. That will touch your trailer, underneath,on the sides ect. This will keep the mice, bugs, ect. From having easy access to it. And for the future storage of the trailer. Make sure you always do this. Don't let anything hang down from it close to the ground either. If you do this. You will never have mice in it. I camped this way and stayed in places for many weeks. I had several campers, did this, and never had mice in them.
I have seen a certain mouse around where your maybe going to be. We called it a "kangaroo mouse" I don't know the real name but. When it goes some place it hops on it's hind legs like a kangaroo. It also has a long tail. Looks cool at night if your going down a road slow and there is a bunch of them bouncing around. But it is still a mouse. Now if you don't have trees close to the house.
Let me tell you about a "wyoming bird perch" This is a pole at least 20 feet tall, taller would be better. Can be metal it you want. On the top, fit a 2 inch wooden dowel crossways. Make it about 2 feet long. On the top. Put this on top of a hill or a couple of hundred yards from the house. This will allow hawks, owls, falcons, ect. To have a place to spot prey from. And it will help with keeping them off the power pole, a true source of death for them. If they land just right on the wires. They will help you with mice, rattlesnakes, ect. Don't put this close to a roadway if you can help it. Some people will shoot them off the pole, with guns. We have people that do that there.
Around the house. If you have a lawn, fence it with small holes wire fence, get a dog. I have seen/had most of a lawn killed in a winter by rabbits eating and peeing on it. The urine and ***** is real bad on grass. And if you were a rabbit what would you eat. A nice well cared for lawn, or prarie hardgrass and sagebrush? At the first sign of a wood pecker, digging a hole in the garage or house, kill it. Don't look a how pretty it is or try to scare it, or patch the hole. Just end the problem and don't tell anyone you did it. I have had them try to peck into my campers. If your living on the highgrass prarie. Learn the critters you will be living with. They will be by from time to time. Some may stay,some you might not want to stay. But this is/was their home, before you got there. I hope this wasn't to long. I miss my homestate.