We regret to announce that Mountain Stream RV Park will be closed indefinitely due to significant damage caused by Hurricane Helene, which has washed away the campground and parts of the road. Our phone systems are currently unavailable as a result of the storm’s impact on our park, roads, and bridges. If you wish to support Mountain Stream RV Park, donations can be made through GiveSendGo. We sincerely appreciate your support and understanding during this challenging time. Updates will be made available on our website and Facebook Page. Thank you!
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Note: we really don’t recommend coming down RT80 from the Parkway in an RV. The 5 miles between here and the Parkway is fairly steep and has a number of switchback curves up near the Parkway. But the 7 miles on RT80 coming up from US70 isn’t too bad. – Ron
We agree that badminton in the center sounds like a good idea. But when we tried it a few years ago, it just didn’t work out. The equipment was pretty much destroyed in just a few days. So we decided that if folks wanted to play badminton, they can bring their own stuff – and many have.
We monitor usage, but this is manual process that happens as time permits. On average, most folks use 20-40MB over a 24 hour period (some a little more, some a little less). So, even with 20 or 25 folks online, we have enough capacity with a comfortable cushion. However, when someone uses 150-200MB (or in this case 650MB) it can be a problem. Normally, we can identify a problem early enough that we can simply warn the person that they are using too much bandwidth and this is usually sufficient. But if not, we will disable their userid rather than let them make everyone else lose their internet access. However, sometimes a problem becomes really big before we are aware of it. Then we have no choice but to cut the person off immediately before any further damage is done. In this case, all the Micosoft updates put us right on the very edge of being shut down. We didn’t get shut down only because there had been relatively light usage from the others on the system. However, it was still necessary for us to turn off the system for a few hours until our 24 hr usage rate dropped.
These are nice folks who have been here a number of times and I feel bad that they think I was rude. I did go to them to tell them that I had disabled their userid and why. However, I didn’t think I was rude about it. I apologize if I was.