PNW_Steve wrote:
Bill.Satellite wrote:
Due to limited bandwidth available to most campground owners (mostly due to remote locations) even an improved signal is not going to improve the experience to the end user. Limited capacity divided by all those RVers equals crappy service no matter how good the signal is.
You certainly might be of help to campground owners by setting up their systems to block ALL streaming type activities from You Tube to NetFlix (and all those Facebook videos) which will improve the ability for multiple users to access the most basic needs such as surfing, e-mail and bill pay. It will likely good over like a fart in Sunday School with the permanent residents but would be a great improvement for the daily/weekly RVers.
I completely understand.
When I installed this WiFi system the only connections available here were dial up (56k if lucky) or satellite (1.5mbps with data caps). If I had limited myself to that I would be in the same spot.
A bit of research found that one of the wholesale providers could install a 45mbps connection less that 20 miles away. We built a (2 hop)microwave backhaul to transport the connection to our location.
It certainly cost a few $$ but has paid for itself many times over.
We have recently upgraded the connection to 100mbps and updated the backhaul equipment to support the faster connection.
There is more than one way to skin a cat :C
How much is "a few bucks"? Lucky for you there was a wholesale provider 20 miles away and you had the ability to install what the heck ever a two hop microwave backhaul is.
Frankly, I have had it up to my neck with Wifi. I cannot please everyone, that is a fact. No matter what system I have in place, no matter what management software is used, someone is going to be unhappy. Between the people who need to have multiple gigs available daily, to the streamers, to the people who can't figure out how to turn their computer on, much less enter a six digit password, to the people who have had their wifi connections configured by some relative who put in so many "safeguards" that the NSA couldn't connect to the computer, much less my wifi system, to the people who sit inside their armor plated RVs with a phone that has an antenna the size of a dime and a transmitter powered by a battery that won't run a hearing aid, someone isn't going to get satisfactory wifi.
I am tired of being the one who chooses who the happy and the unhappy people are. Why spend $10,000 upgrading to system that won't please everyone when the system I have in place will do that just fine.
Oh, one more thing. The people who complain the most and find that RV park wifi is unacceptable are the exact people who cause the problems. The ultra high bandwidth users and the people who cannot live without streaming. Unlike power or water, where if there is some deficiency everyone suffers, slow wifi only effects a select few. Everyone else just switches to their air cards, or checks their email and the weather and figure they will watch the latest episode of Game of Thrones another time.
