Wi fi Antenna to pull in signal in camp grounds

[Gone_fishing1]

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

[usersmanual]

jdevans22 wrote:
I have used Rogue Wave wifi ecb5010 I installed in 2010 works grate. Web site is www.wavewifi.com.

sounds like its the best of the best but very expensive @500$
I wonder how much better it is over the 100$ items that claim the same
Hard to get user info feed back on such products (comparing)

What iam trying to understand is a Ubiquiti Networks NanoStation2 NS2 2.4GHz 802.11g @105.00 going to do the same job as a
Rogue Wave @370.00

and which is the Wave wifi ecb5010 I cant find that product number?

[jdevans22]

I have used Rogue Wave wifi ecb5010 I installed in 2010 works grate. Web site is www.wavewifi.com.

[edatlanta]

Dutch_12078 wrote:
In those rare RV parks with decent WiFi, we use the "WiFi as WAN" feature of our Pepwave Surf On-The-Go repeater/router with a cell hotspot tethered to it as a failover connection. Most of the time, we just use the hotspot connected to it it.

I do exactly the same thing with a Pepwave Surf SOHO. Works great.

[Bill_Satellite]

dmcgiffin wrote:
I bought one from Best Buy....they won't work if the wifi requires authentication

I must assume that you mean yours won't. Mine will and most should allow you to connect to any WiFi network as long as you know the password.

[usersmanual]

they also have cell phones if they are over the age of 9...


LOL maybe the age of 4 now

[FlintlockCG]

As a park owner, this is an interesting thread and from experience I can tell you that providing good bandwidth over a large geographical area is both difficult and expensive. We hired a fellow who had designed the wifi system for a large university campus and I think our system is top tier. However we know that we will have to continue to spend because bandwidth need is only going to expand.

One example; we are a 100 site park and on a weekend recently we had 400 devices connected at one time. Think about it; 2 people per site with 2 cell phones, 1 or 2 laptops or ipads and maybe a roku or appletv for streaming. And if they have kids, they also have cell phones if they are over the age of 9...

Some parks just hang out a wireless router; that is not going to cut it IMO.

[hanko]

usersmanual wrote:

sch911 wrote:
Even if you got a perfect signal from the AP it still doesn't mean you'll be happy. Most park systems are over utilized and have huge backhaul issues. And there are many of us who abuse the bandwidth by trying to stream video to multiple tv's and computers. Get a Verizon MiFi device and be happy!

yes that's exactly what I was trying to say you can have all the signal in the world but if the bandwidth or whatever is poor or overloaded your not going to get good wifi

this is what I find happens most of the time at RV resorts. good signal saturated system. To many people streaming videos and or movies. I use my phone as a Hot Spot and eliminates all that, great internet

[Gone_fishing1]

Thanks for all of the info. It is going to take me awhile to wade through all it.

Bob

[dmcgiffin]

I bought one from Best Buy....they won't work if the wifi requires authentication

[Bill_Satellite]

jorbill2or wrote:
I've used this This and it's worked great for me watch the video and it will explain better than I can

I set this up in my coach as well. It cost less than $100 and does an excellent job. There are 2 antennas available and I got the cheaper one. However, for the small price difference I would recommend you get the bigger one unless space is an issue.

[Dutch_12078]

In those rare RV parks with decent WiFi, we use the "WiFi as WAN" feature of our Pepwave Surf On-The-Go repeater/router with a cell hotspot tethered to it as a failover connection. Most of the time, we just use the hotspot connected to it it.

[edatlanta]

ChooChooMan74 wrote:
Good luck!! WiFi at parks sucks. Too many people using what little bandwidth they have. I do have a setup on my trailer, but it is pretty complicated for most people. I have a WiFi transceiver on the roof, that passes the data down to a mini router in the camper, that is just powerful enough to use around the camper.

I agree that WiFi at "most" parks suck. I have never found a good one until this week. I had to evacuate Panama City, FL 3 days ago due to the Tropical Storm and moved to Live Oak Landing just south of Freeport, FL. Their WiFi was fantastic anytime of the day and at any site in the park. Not only that this was one of the friendliest parks I have ever stayed in. I recommend it highly.

[Kaz]

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.

Skip

[FrankShore]

BearExtender makes nice models