Newbie needs help with WiFi!

Smart phone hot spot. Even my most basic Galaxy phone that's many years old can act as a wifi hot spot. You just need to have cell phone service wherever you are.. But, relying on a campground wifi setup is good for email at best.. No streaming and especially no Zoom... That service takes a TON of band width and will suck data pretty fast, so make sure you get a plan that has a lot of data per month!

My office has Verizon MiFi hot spot units with "unlimited" data... But, after 15 GB it gets throttled down to a crawl.. I had a user use up all 15 GB in less than a week with just doing Zoom and Teams meeting video meetings...

Anyway, good luck!

Mitch

Hi,

Hot spot is what you are looking for. Use and "add a line" and get a dedicated device for data.

Park WIFI can be OK but often is not, the more people that try to use it the worse it gets. Most folks these days are going with call phone hotspots. Either Verizon (the best) or ATT are favored. We use Visible which is on the Verizon cell phone system. A good plan is to put one person on Verizon and the other on ATT to provide a backup. I have rarely not had service even when boondocking. You will want a cell phone booster system.

Visible costs $40/month and has 'unlimited' data. We generally use 30+ GB/mo and have had no trouble so far. If you plan to watch movies all the time or otherwise burn thru a bunch of GB then I'm not sure how it would work. There are other services, the major companies have killed most of their cheap offerings. Lots of these small companies fail in a few months leaving up up the river, de-paddled.