Does "free WiFi" ever work?

noplace2 wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:
Obviously you are correct and the people who work in that industry, or have to buy bandwidth and install wifi systems are wrong. There is no reason you shouldn't have unlimited bandwidth for streaming in an RV park no matter where it is located. And it shouldn't cost a penny. So I agree 100%, people should boycott all RV parks until they get wifi right. I mean if the government can do it with it's unlimited budget and access to frequencies that are restricted only to military usage, why shouldn't a campground be able to do it on the 11 frequencies that are used for wifi throughout the country by everyone.
People should stay at Walmart, in the National Forest Campgrounds, casinos and every other free location and really put the screws to the park owners who are keeping all that good wifi out of their parks for no reason other than to make life difficult for the RVer. Your boycott would really bring them to their knees and I am sure wifi would improve overnight.
Personally, if everyone who needs to stream HD movies boycotted my parks I would be ecstatic, that would mean the wifi would work much better for the 95% of the guests who only need to check some e-mails, do a bit of banking, check the weather and do some recreation web surfing.

I'm still LOL as I type. I could not agree with you more and the bottom line is that you can dress 'em up in 3 piece suits and the finest kind of niceties but they are still bovines.

LOL x2 could not have answered it better myself :)
One point on line of sight... the reason the military uses it is not due to its speed and stability, but due to its flexibility and ease of implementation. Think back to the old days. During WWI some poor kid had to run notes back and forth from the trenches while the bullets were flying, during WWII some poor fool had to run a spool of twisted pair back to a command post for phone access. Now days they just point an antenna from the trench, bunker etc. If they move, they just repoint. I cannot imagine trying to cleave and terminate fiber in a trench, my personal worst nightmare was dealing with new fiber while a building was being drywalled.
Honestly no disrespect meant to anyone who has served, but I somehow cannot imagine a forward position where there are 100 guys huddled behind sandbags all pissed off because there is not enough bandwidth on the line of sight military link for all of them to watch the latest season of Orange is the New Black on their iPads.