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. Well that (thankfully) was soon replaced with universal indoor plumbing for virtually every household in America.It strikes me that RV Parks are in somewhat a similar backwards time warp regarding WiFi.virtually every store, institution, cafe, restaurant, home and office has dependable FAST, Fat Tube WiFi. ...except most RV Parks.This is frankly the 21century corollary to the Out House.It is time for RV Parks to come into this century and get with modernizing (or just obtaining) Good dependable and Fast WiFi.Why is it that as a business segment they have been slower than almost any other to adapt? My guess is there are two fundamental reasons: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.I am 64 and it was MY generation that brought forth this technology. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are both from my generation. I have been using computers in my work since well before there was such a thing called "Windows".The Rving public are not a bunch of hopeless technophobes and Luddites.It is time for RV Parks to wake up and get with what is going on in the society has a whole.Not having Fast Reliable WiFi 17 years into the 21st Century is equivalent to still having an outhouse in 1980.

I agree.I certainly don't expect any type of wi-fi in national parks/forests, or any public land. And I'm not addicted to having it ALL the time.But if you are going to advertise it as amenity of your park, it needs to be FAST and DEPENDABLE throughout the park. If I'm in a park like that, it's because I want the amenities.

Good heavens ! What would you do if you were boon docking !jack L

Carry your own Secured WIFI Hot Spot with you. Don't have to reply on any of the other WIFI signals from the various places...Roy Ken

RoyB wrote:Carry your own Secured WIFI Hot Spot with you. Don't have to reply on any of the other WIFI signals from the various places...Roy KenAgree! We are now almost 17 years into the 21st century. Every single person on planet earth should have, and carry their own WIFI (hotspot) source too. There's no excuse not to have your own.

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KBOnTheRoad
Explorer
Dec 12, 2016
DutchmenSport wrote:
RoyB wrote:
Carry your own Secured WIFI Hot Spot with you. Don't have to reply on any of the other WIFI signals from the various places...

Roy Ken

Agree!

We are now almost 17 years into the 21st century. Every single person on planet earth should have, and carry their own WIFI (hotspot) source too. There's no excuse not to have your own.

I think you are both seeing WiFi as a personal bit of technology ...like a phone. I think that is the wrong way to look at it.

WiFi is much more like electricity, gas or water it's really now a basic infrastructure and should be regarded as such. This is why I made the analogy to the outhouse and indoor plumbing.

The WiFi hotspot devices are actually on their way out now. Besides that 4GLTE is limited and much much slower than good Fast DSL, Fiberoptic etc. It is not the answer. Especially since you are at the mercy of the "coverage map" of your provider.

As for Rural Places if you look closely as you drive out in the country you will be surprised how much is covered by Fiber Optic service. In point of fact some rural areas are better served in some states than the cities. This is due to Federal assistance to bring Fast dependable WiFi Cable and Telephone to rural areas.
DrewE
Explorer II
Dec 12, 2016
When you get out in the boonies, I think you might be surprised how many homes and businesses don't have FAST internet access. They may have semi-quick access, at least for their own use, but once you get beyond the reach of cable TV and get far enough away from the phone company boxes for high-speed DSL to be very iffy, it's far from a given. This tends to be the sorts of areas where many campgrounds are built, too.

Providing a robust, quick wireless internet setup that covers the several acres of a campground is not a trivial bit of infrastructure, certainly a lot harder than providing it for a dozen or two patrons in a cafe. It requires multiple access points, connected with some sort of medium area network (using wire or fiber runs, most likely). Getting a sufficiently large upstream connection to permit everyone to stream video simultaneously is likewise not a trivial or inexpensive job.

I do completely agree that, if WiFi is advertised as being available throughout the campground, it ought to be available and at least basically usable at all the sites. Where I disagree is that it's reasonable to expect it as a basic amenity on the same level as, say, having a picnic table and fire ring at each site.
dewey02
Explorer II
Dec 12, 2016
DutchmenSport wrote:
RoyB wrote:
Carry your own Secured WIFI Hot Spot with you. Don't have to reply on any of the other WIFI signals from the various places...

Roy Ken

Agree!

We are now almost 17 years into the 21st century. Every single person on planet earth should have, and carry their own WIFI (hotspot) source too. There's no excuse not to have your own.

What's that, Roy Ken??

I'm sitting in my outhouse in northern Minnesota and it is zero degrees and I can't hear you because my outhouse doesn't have wifi! :)
DutchmenSport
Explorer
Dec 12, 2016
RoyB wrote:
Carry your own Secured WIFI Hot Spot with you. Don't have to reply on any of the other WIFI signals from the various places...

Roy Ken

Agree!

We are now almost 17 years into the 21st century. Every single person on planet earth should have, and carry their own WIFI (hotspot) source too. There's no excuse not to have your own.
RoyB
Explorer II
Dec 12, 2016
Carry your own Secured WIFI Hot Spot with you. Don't have to reply on any of the other WIFI signals from the various places...

Roy Ken
NanciL
Explorer II
Dec 12, 2016
Good heavens !
What would you do if you were boon docking !

jack L
MWJones
Explorer
Dec 12, 2016
NUFF SAID !!!!!:B
coolmom42
Explorer II
Dec 12, 2016
I agree.

I certainly don't expect any type of wi-fi in national parks/forests, or any public land. And I'm not addicted to having it ALL the time.

But if you are going to advertise it as amenity of your park, it needs to be FAST and DEPENDABLE throughout the park. If I'm in a park like that, it's because I want the amenities.

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