Picking up Wi-Fi

Improve your Wifi signal strength.

Meerkat2202 wrote:
Newbie here but how can I pick up Wi-Fi on my phone, computer or smart tv inside my camper. For example just messing with it in my driveway I can seek my home Wi-Fi with about 1 bar sometimes 2. How can I improve that signal from inside my camper?

Make your phone its own Wifi hot spot.
Talk to your phone company.
AT&T inter net.

http://www.attinternetservice.com/internet.html

A wifi amplifier.
But cell phone hot spot is best I think.

You are in a metal box, metal blocks radio waves like wifi, you need an RV wifi repeater such as those sold by wifi ranger (there are others too)

Just because you are able to connect to a CG WiFi system does not mean it will be usable...

More often than not these systems are virtually useless due to limited bandwidth because of those who are trying to stream their favorite TV shows. This why those of us who really want internet access get our own hot spot device or use our smart phone as a hotspot.

Well, that was helpful...NOT!

"You don't want it"..."Use your phone"...."Call the cell phone company"....

Lots of different ways to improve WiFi....Check out this site

http://www.technomadia.com/

Great site with tons of info about cellular and WiFi

Also, https://outsideourbubble.com/

He has a very inexpensive WiFi booster DYI that works great. I use it all the time to access McDonalds, Panera Bread, and huindreds of other WiFi hotspots while on the road. I even find that during the day, many campground wifi systems are fine. At night they tend to get overloaded.

Use a Wi-Fi Ranger. this is a 2 device setup. The outdoor device acts like a cable modem, only instead of cable it is a Wi-FI adapter. The inside deice is arouter Wi-Fi or Wir4ed in my case.

Takes some getting used to for setup as you move about.. but works well,.

Campground wifi is getting better and better all the time as more and more of us are demanding good internet access. As you travel, read reviews of the campgrounds at rvparkreviews.com. Many people will indicate how the wifi was which is helpful in picking a place with good usable wifi.

Rbertalotto wrote:
Well, that was helpful...NOT!

"You don't want it"..."Use your phone"...."Call the cell phone company"....

Lots of different ways to improve WiFi....Check out this site

http://www.technomadia.com/

Great site with tons of info about cellular and WiFi

Also, https://outsideourbubble.com/

He has a very inexpensive WiFi booster DYI that works great. I use it all the time to access McDonalds, Panera Bread, and huindreds of other WiFi hotspots while on the road. I even find that during the day, many campground wifi systems are fine. At night they tend to get overloaded.

If you go with the system described in the outside our bubble YouTube video, and want the Air Gateway (and the Nanostation) to run on 12V, this power supply is a plug & play substitute for the 120V power supply supplied with the Nanostation. The plastic "lock" supplied with the original combination won't work with the 12V supply, but a rubber band takes care of that.