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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Lantley wrote:
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..
As noted above campers are getting wiser and are realizing as a whole that they need to share the available bandwidth and not clog up the wifi with excessive streaming.
I don't think so. More people then ever are streaming based on people we talk to. Also we see fewer and fewer satellite dishes and campgrounds with cable at the site. I doubt they are simply using antenna tv or not watching anything.
Yes, it does use more of the available bandwidth but the first thing to have trouble when the system is reaching it's limit is streaming. If the streaming is working, the folks just downloading a stray email are having no issues. If the streaming is constantly hanging up, most people will switch to their cell hotspot, so the problem is self limiting.
Go back 10yrs ago and cell hot spot streaming was for all reasonable purposes not possible, so you would get some people trying to stream on the wifi even when the system was overloaded. Also, the wifi systems are more advanced and can limit streaming access when the system is reaching it's limit.
