Wi fi Antenna to pull in signal in camp grounds

Gone fishing wrote:
Can anyone recommend and wi-fi antenna that will pull in the signal in a camp ground. I have tried and Alfa marine antenna and that did not work at all.

Thanks, Bob

I use the Alfa model with the USB repeater (see here: http://www.technorv.com/RV_WiFi_Boosters_s/85.htm) and it works fine. But the comments above are right. If the problem is that you're on the far side of a campground, a WiFi booster (or a yagi antenna) will solve the problem. But more often the problem is a combination of minimal bandwidth and/or stupid, selfish campers hogging the bandwidth. The latter is, I think, the real culprit. We talked to a campground owner recently who said they kept upgrading the system and had purchased the highest bandwidth available in that area, but every time they upgraded their system, the utilization increased just as quickly. At check-in, they provide a list of bandwidth-hogging activities (including some I hadn't thought of, like automatic OS updates), and ask people not to engage in those, but mostly to no avail. They had concluded that the only way to provide decent internet capacity to folks to use e-mail and ordinary web access was to install technology to detect uses like video streaming and selectively throttle those users' connections. Personally, I'd prefer throttling the users rather than just their connections, thereby not only freeing up bandwidth but solving the campsite availability problem at the same time.

Anyway, rant off. The Alfa system works fine and the technorv people are very helpful.

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