Campground WiFi Improving?
I've always been in the camp, that it's nice if you can get some use out of campground wifi but it's usually garbage and you are better using your phone for a hotspot. 11 stops and 2 months into a ...
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Lwiddis wrote:
Doesn’t improvement often depend on the campground’s supplier? If the cable company can’t, won’t or doesn’t offer more bandwidth the campground is stuck.
Sort of to a point.
Most likely is more on the campground's infrastructure more so than the ISP.
Additionally, campground will be on commercial contract at commercial costs. Businesses tend to get beat over the head for data use so the campground may not be paying for a higher data rate tier to keep costs as low as possible. Costs money to build out a large WiFi system and the industrial/commercial high power APs cost a lot more money upfront.
One campground we often visit, last yr they did make some huge improvements by adding in additional APs through out the park. Can't say that the speed was improved, but at least now was able to find strong enough APs to be able to sift through emails without getting disconnected.
Would I consider streaming?
No, doing so adds more congestion to the system and if everyone did so would hog the limited resources to the brink of being unusable for everyone.. I am not selfish enough to do so..
