Does "free WiFi" ever work?

westernrvparkowner wrote:

holstein13 wrote:

rwbradley wrote:
Unfortunately there is a reason the worlds backbone and most large organizations are built almost exclusively on Fiber optic cable. I am not aware of any over the air solution that is capable of delivering remotely close to the bandwidth required, is stable under load and stable under adverse conditions like weather. Fiber optic is the only solution that is capable of delivering high bandwidth over any long distance with virtually no errors.

Line of sight and wireless technologies are virtually the only thing our military uses these days. It's pretty reliable under virtually any conditions.

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.

You're right. Now I understand that every park owner is a certified network engineer and they've optimized their systems to the best most cost effective degree possible. Thanks for your snarkiness and showing me how it's impossible to improve internet at any location at any time and it's impossible to use wireless or line of site technology unless you have an unlimited budget.

I love how dogmatic you are in your beliefs. Me, I try to keep an open mind and I believe firmly, almost anything can be improved (except the way you run your park, of course.)