WiFi booster?

What equipment are you using? What is the signal strength of the network you are attempting to connect to? Is there a network key and if so, who provided this?

Ah well, old-timers disease strikes again. That is the problem with these user-unfriendly devices - they are too stupid to tell you you have done something stupid. All they do is sit there and blink at you.

Been here a few days and entered the easy to remember wifi password in a few days ago, but when I entered it this time I put the year on the wrong end of the RV park initials. DOH!!!

However, since even Windows is able to tell you the password is wrong, how hard would it for a fancy system like this to say something.

Thanks. All good now so between this system and Google Fi, I should be able to stay connected no matter where I am in 150 countries.

Nice! Enjoy!

tony lee wrote:
Bill, you might know the solution.

Everything set up and seemingly working EXCEPT that although I can connect to the antenna or the gateway via my browser and select the local wifi and enter the security code and connect to it, I can't get internet. Says access is "limited"

What doesn't seem right is the signal strength meter on both the antenna itself and when looking at the signal strength via the browser - is blinking on and off - about 1 second on and one second off.

Any clues please?

When a WiFi network connection returns the error message dialogue "Limited Network Connectivity", it means that you did reach the network -- but you didn't receive a DNS-issued address, only a local (192.168.x.x range) address. That won't get you outside that local network and onto the Internet. (You can see this by going to Control Panel/Network & Sharing Center/See Network Connections, selecting that WiFi connection, and selecting the Details button.)

That could either be a signal strength issue or a problem with that WiFi hotspot. It could also mean that there's a secondary Web page that you must be transported to, in order to agree to their access terms, before giving you a fully-connected DNS address.

Too many factors to determine, definitively, without more information.

thestoloffs wrote:

tony lee wrote:
Bill, you might know the solution.

Everything set up and seemingly working EXCEPT that although I can connect to the antenna or the gateway via my browser and select the local wifi and enter the security code and connect to it, I can't get internet. Says access is "limited"

What doesn't seem right is the signal strength meter on both the antenna itself and when looking at the signal strength via the browser - is blinking on and off - about 1 second on and one second off.

Any clues please?

When a WiFi network connection returns the error message dialogue "Limited Network Connectivity", it means that you did reach the network -- but you didn't receive a DNS-issued address, only a local (192.168.x.x range) address. That won't get you outside that local network and onto the Internet. (You can see this by going to Control Panel/Network & Sharing Center/See Network Connections, selecting that WiFi connection, and selecting the Details button.)

That could either be a signal strength issue or a problem with that WiFi hotspot. It could also mean that there's a secondary Web page that you must be transported to, in order to agree to their access terms, before giving you a fully-connected DNS address.

Too many factors to determine, definitively, without more information.

He had already posted that he resolved the conflict with proper setup.

Thanks all. Problem is my 50-year-old degree in Electrical Engineering didn't include Internet Stuff 101 and while I've kept up with it well enough to, for instance, trouble-shoot a campus-wide system in a hospital in the PNG Highlands, it doesn't take much to mess me up - and in this case you couldn't get a much more basic mess-up on my part - wrong password.

Anyway, down near the border and sitting under a big tree in the Walmart parking lot and the nanoStation is lying horizontally on the back of the copilot's chair pulling in a nice signal from Starbucks which is far enough away that I had no signal at all using just the laptop antenna. Google Fi is also connected to the gateway and updating all the stuff that I wont let it update on paid service ---- so I'm a happy customer.

The Google Fi phone and internet service is also performing as promised and swapping seamlessly back and forth between free wifi and Telco services depending what is available and is very easy to force it to not use anything that costs me money so that should be good too.

OP, short answer is mobile users have the same problem as you, and maybe worse. My laptop has a stronger wifi receiver than my ipad or iphone. More than once I could connect to campground wifi on my laptop when my mobile devices didn't even recognize that a wifi network existed.

Still didn't change the fact that speed of the network almost always sucks. I stay on long enough to check sports scores. Wouldn't even try to stream video. I'm a weekend warrior so tv isn't part of our camping experience but we bring DVD's or movies on the hard drive just in case we are stuck in rainy weather.

Well, it was good while it lasted. Used the nanostation for four days in the month we have been on the road. Moved campgrounds yesterday and now I can't log in to the nanostation to set it up for the new wifi service.

Just as well I didn't throw out my $20 ebay cheapie.