Wifi Repeater help
I am looking at various options and hardware for helping pick up wifi from poorly broadcast signals at many parks. I would like to connect an outdoor antenna to an indoor wireless router and be able t...
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rwbradley wrote:ChooChooMan74 wrote:
Big problem with repeaters, which RV parks use, is that every repeater hop cuts the bandwidth in half. I am in the process of building a system where a Ubiquiti Bullet is on the roof and a regular access point is in the camper.
Unfortunately it is too costly for them to run cable between the access points, especially when it can only be run up to 300 feet from the last powered router/switch. Even with public sector or corporate pricing it still costs about $1/ft for outdoor grade Ethernet cable. Multiply that by all the access points in some of the parks in Myrtle Beach or Florida and you are talking tens of thousands of dollars in cabling. In the longer term if they were to implement more modern hardware that can do meshing, the access points can find many different paths back to the office vs serially.
The best way to deal with that issue is to ask to be as close to the main building as possible, you are far more likely to get decent bandwidth when you have not been halved to death when you are in the back row. Imagine being in a big park with many access points. The first one at the office will run at 54mb, the next one that connects to it would be at 26mb, the next one would be at 13mb, the next one at 6.5 etc. Imagine being in an RV in the back of the park with barely any bandwidth and everyone is trying to do Netflix.
We have a brand new campground locally, and Cox ran all the cable wires. I figured that they would have Cox put in their access points, but they put in cheap repeaters.
