WiFi and Outhouses
When I was very young some people living in rural areas still had outhouses as their primary and only toilets. Not mind you in California where I grew up, but some of my relatives back in Michigan. We...
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KBOnTheRoad wrote:
Many are "Mom an Pop" businesses who just don't get the necessity or understand the benefits of having up to date wiFi systems.
Others are laboring under the misperception that the demographics of their customer base means we are less proficient at or don't use computers at all. This is pure baloney.
Orrrrrrrr - you don't understand bandwidth and the boonies. ;)
I used to work for a Bandwidth company. Think of it this way - your RV park can have the best WiFi on God's Green Planet. All 9000 of the motorhomes connect wonderfully to the local park's connection.
But - because you're in the boonies, there's a soda-straw sized connection: from the RV park to the Local Telephone company.
Blammo - slow internet.
Or, maybe the RV park uses Cable and there's a decent sized connection between the park and the cable company. But, again, because you're in the boonies - there's a soda-straw sized connection between the cable company and the RBOC.
Point being - you're only going to go as fast as the slowest link in the chain.
There are still only a handful of ways to drag any connection out to the boonies: telephone, cable, microwave and satellite. All of them pale in speed to what fiber optic cable can provide.
Trenching fiber into the boonies is ridiculously expensive.
4G/LTE cell towers are probably the current, best hope for connecting the boonies. Right now, that's expensive and still can't provide the bandwidth to support a packed RV park filled with campers streaming Hulu episodes of Lawrence Welk. ;)
