WiFi

You want a Repeater/amplifier
Not a wifi router
You want to increase the signal going each way
A Repeater does not 'connect'/talk to the campground wifi access point, it just increases the signal level, communication is handled by your pc/ device's
There are routers, repeaters, and Bridges

If you use a router you must input wifi password data for the campground into router if it is going to be connecting to the wifi, then you have a different password access for your router

I'm not an expert on this, but i have used wifi repeaters and have an old one stored under the bed

Which router do you use? How about Netgear nighthawk.
Hope this article might help you

I can see this issue is going to require a lot more research. I may move my rig back to Houston. Most of the parks there have acceptable Wi-Fi available to all spaces eliminating the need for any supplementl devices. It's all still up in the air at this point.

travisc wrote:
Campground WiFi is throttled so you can’t used it like you own it, it a convenience for travelers for basic connectivity, if you want real internet get your own service

If only that were true, campground wifi might be better -- most parks allow you to use as much bandwidth as their connection allows, which means someone watching a 4K youtube video is going to suck up their whole internet connect - and you get a half dozen people all doing the same thing so everyone's competing with everyone else (often without even knowing it, like their computer will try to download a 2GB system update in the background) and the guy trying to read his email barely gets any bandwidth at all.


I'd rather that they throttled everyone to 5mbit, maybe even 1mbit to try to preserve bandwidth for everyone.

Plus many parks set all of their Wifi nodes to the same channel, even the backhauls for repeaters, so the radio noise further degrades the connections and then you start to get retransmissions as packets are dropped which consumes even more bandwidth.

I wish more parks offered paid internet, I don't mind paying for bandwidth, I have a hotspot, but a well managed Wifi network is usually better (faster, lower latency) than a cellular connection.

Ok, so with all of this in mind, I would rather get my own means of connecting to tth internet. Most park connections that I've seen are not secure. And they offer little in the way of bandwidth. I understand this is a feasability issue as many parks are small operations with low budgets.

I need to get my own system but my budget is limited as well. I also need to find a solution for television beyond the UFO on the roof. We are full timing so internet and TV are somewhat important. Internet being the one essential here for a number of reasons.

Any budget friendly suggestions?

Check out Visible.com. It's a Verizon owned company. Price is $40/month for unlimited everything which includes hotspot use. This can be reduced to $25/month by joining a Party Pay plan. I've been using it since June of last year and it has worked out great. I've used as much as 300 GB of data in one month. You can use your existing phone if it's compatible or you could trade in your phone and get a free one.

One more thing. There is a company (Unbiquiti if I recall correctly) I bought there Nano Station Loco M2. as I recall (two models M and M2 I got the smaller)

THe original wi-fi Ranger I understand used this module. I suggest the larger for better performance. ONLY issue I have is the Security at some campgrounds if is the older one.. IT will not connect. Only connects to the new one

About 5 Times the signal strength

I put it on a flagpole

Now of course I just use my own cellular data to the Nano Station is in the basement... Conncted to my Spring Mi-Fi From FMCA