westernrvparkowner wrote:
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.
Given how you feel about the things that come with running an RV Park, why do you do it? You don't sound like you like your customers, or enjoy what you do. Have you considered that you might be happier doing something else?
As full-timers, we have multiple solutions for our Internet needs. We have diverse systems from both Verizon and T-Mobile that we can plug into our router. We have both DOCSIS 3 cable and ADSL2+ modems for hardwired service. We also have a way to interface to an available WiFi if necessary/possible. If your rules say no streaming (hopefully you have backed that up with appropriate filtering/blocking technology), then that's great. If they don't, then it's only your fault.
