Why must wifi be so bad
Ok, just back from 2 weeks on the road -- our first big trip. I was surprised at how poor the wifi was at every place we stayed. Things I ran into: - one park didn't even try to offer it where ...
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kohai wrote:
I assume working wifi will be more of a demand with the younger generation -- or lack of working wifi may deter them from the RV world.
More likely, in five years public wifi systems will have gone the way of the corded phone and the telephone booth. You will get your wifi connections directly from your internet service providers. At home it will be from your phone company (DSL), your cable company (cable modems or fiber optic based) and when you travel, exclusively from your cellular provider. Most RV parks cannot obtain enough bandwidth to service 100+ simultaneous users. If you spend much time in hotels, you know that even in large cities the wifi is pretty much crud and they have access to the latest and greatest bandwidth options. If you NEED wifi, you need to supply your own. We provide it as a nice amenity, but you cannot depend on it, any more than you can depend on the cable system in an RV park to have HBO so you won't miss an episode of Game of Thrones.
And as much as everyone will bluster about how important wifi is and claim if a park really wanted to provide it, they could. The fact is it is IMPOSSIBLE to for the vast majority of parks to provide nearly unlimited bandwidth to virtually an unlimited amount of users. And all the programs and equipment that "manage" traffic, are all subject to the laws of diminishing returns. After you have basic traffic shaping installed, all the other programs become more costly, require more man hours to manage and really don't improve the service very much.
