โFeb-06-2014 05:49 AM
โFeb-10-2014 08:38 AM
Bumpyroad wrote:
how do you propose that these campgrounds size the wifi installation? do they go to the extent that each and every site can stream netflix 24/7/365 and that "commercial" users are satisfied. then the cost for a non-user or minimal user would be out of sight.
the solution is simple. buy your own hot spot. don't expect that $17.00 a day campground to provide it.
bumpy
โFeb-10-2014 07:40 AM
โFeb-10-2014 04:08 AM
HappyKayakers wrote:
So, the campgrounds should subsidize Internet access for large families or people running online businesses from their RVs?
If you absolutely need more data each month, you always have the option of paying for more. The plan I have for my aircard is 5GB per month. I always have the option of going over that limit and paying extra.
BTW, I really like the previous poster's pay phone analogy. Seems to be spot on. Before everyone carried their own cell phones, pay phones were a way of life. Now that everyone can carry their own hotspot, free wifi will begin to disappear.
โFeb-10-2014 01:19 AM
runner_one wrote:
My wife and I support our selves with telecommute jobs. I work for two companies, one in the US and one in the UK, and my wife works for one in the US. Because I work for companies across 6 time zones I am on call 24/7 so I must be able to set down at the computer and just have it work every time. Although I have a Verizon hotspot for back-up I can not remain in a RV park for more than a few days that doesn't have reliable WI-FI. Also because of my background in networking I often trade work on campground wifi for lot rent. I have upgraded many campgrounds and received many free nights in my travels.
โFeb-09-2014 08:56 PM
rockhillmanor wrote:
Pretty sad that's it's come down to the fact that now a 'camping experience with the family' is so centered around having free perfect high speed internet access. What's the point of even going to a CG?
Stay at home and have all the family members in different rooms using your residential high speed internet, problem solved.
โFeb-09-2014 05:18 AM
Dutch_12078 wrote:Bumpyroad wrote:Dutch_12078 wrote:rockhillmanor wrote:
Pretty sad that's it's come down to the fact that now a 'camping experience with the family' is so centered around having free perfect high speed internet access. What's the point of even going to a CG?
Stay at home and have all the family members in different rooms using your residential high speed internet, problem solved.
This is the "Full-time RVing" forum. Many of us are "home" when we're in a campground.
I have to pay for wifi at my sticks and bricks "home". why shouldn't full timers?
bumpy
I don't object to paying for good WiFi service. I do object to paying for the abysmal excuse for it though, that some campgrounds provide, regardless of whether it's included in my site rent or charged as an extra. There is no "free" WiFi at any campground I've ever been to.
โFeb-09-2014 04:30 AM
Bumpyroad wrote:Dutch_12078 wrote:rockhillmanor wrote:
Pretty sad that's it's come down to the fact that now a 'camping experience with the family' is so centered around having free perfect high speed internet access. What's the point of even going to a CG?
Stay at home and have all the family members in different rooms using your residential high speed internet, problem solved.
This is the "Full-time RVing" forum. Many of us are "home" when we're in a campground.
I have to pay for wifi at my sticks and bricks "home". why shouldn't full timers?
bumpy
โFeb-09-2014 04:01 AM
Bumpyroad wrote:Dutch_12078 wrote:rockhillmanor wrote:
Pretty sad that's it's come down to the fact that now a 'camping experience with the family' is so centered around having free perfect high speed internet access. What's the point of even going to a CG?
Stay at home and have all the family members in different rooms using your residential high speed internet, problem solved.
This is the "Full-time RVing" forum. Many of us are "home" when we're in a campground.
I have to pay for wifi at my sticks and bricks "home". why shouldn't full timers?bumpy
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
โFeb-08-2014 09:20 AM
โFeb-08-2014 08:49 AM
Dutch_12078 wrote:rockhillmanor wrote:
Pretty sad that's it's come down to the fact that now a 'camping experience with the family' is so centered around having free perfect high speed internet access. What's the point of even going to a CG?
Stay at home and have all the family members in different rooms using your residential high speed internet, problem solved.
This is the "Full-time RVing" forum. Many of us are "home" when we're in a campground.
โFeb-08-2014 06:21 AM
โFeb-08-2014 05:41 AM
Dutch_12078 wrote:
This is the "Full-time RVing" forum. Many of us are "home" when we're in a campground.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
โFeb-07-2014 07:09 PM
rockhillmanor wrote:
Pretty sad that's it's come down to the fact that now a 'camping experience with the family' is so centered around having free perfect high speed internet access. What's the point of even going to a CG?
Stay at home and have all the family members in different rooms using your residential high speed internet, problem solved.
โFeb-07-2014 03:50 PM
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
โFeb-07-2014 10:10 AM
paulcardoza wrote:
You certainly CAN do that, if you are willing and able to live with the data caps that come along with those plans. For many people, it's plenty good enough. For larger families or fulltimers who my do some sort of online work or business from their RV, it may not.Bumpyroad wrote:
just curious but I have previously checked on firm's providing what I guess was my own wifi hot spot for about $60 a month. if one really needed/wanted wifi couldn't they just spring for one of those?
bumpy