Campground wi-Fi

[az350x]

In your experience, how often do you have a good enough wi-fi signal to stream movies (Netflix, etc.) at a campground?

I'm weighing the hassle/expense of taking Directv on the road this summer...

[bigcitypopo]

my home internet has more bandwidth than the entire campground at most places... those CG's never had reliable phone service.. let alone power.... kinda need both for internet.... lol

[SCVJeff]

It's obviously a simple matter to completely block any UDP protocol, or sites like Netflix, Youtube, etc., The airlines are doing it now, and even then it's barely good enough to read these forums as that service is amazingly limited.

If it were my CG and my service was choked, I would simply shut off streaming anything for the good of the masses.

[Bill_Satellite]

That's not the main reason, but it certainly is one of the reasons. We are are now in an RV park in Morgan Hill, CA and the connection is simply to flaky to maintain a connection. We were just in a park in French Camp, CA and they said they had great WiFi, you just needed to come to the office to be able to use it (this is a very large park and would require you to drive to this location). The main reason is bad infrastructure and some of the many other issues are the hardware used, the software used and the people who set it up and those who are expected to support it.

[Gene_Ginny]

SCVJeff wrote:

lanerd wrote:
That is one of the main reasons why campground (rv parks) wifi systems are so crappy because people are hogging all the band width downloading movies.

Ron

What he said..

100% TRUE

[cochise49]

Vet Man wrote:
I have a Verizon Hot stop, can use the internet while traveling down the road. $50 month

With 3 or 4G cell service without unlimited bandwidth (unthrottled) you will quickly use up your allotment. 1 GB for 1 hr of HDTV streaming. I think Netfilx will allow you to slow down the connection to SD but Hulu and Amazon do not. They deliver at the best speed possible. My wife would watch that in two evenings of American Idol and The Voice.

[rk911]

lanerd wrote:

paulcardoza wrote:
100% NOT TRUE. 99% of CG Wifi systems start out as junk.

lanerd wrote:
That is one of the main reasons why campground (rv parks) wifi systems are so crappy because people are hogging all the band width downloading movies.

Ron

And you Paul, are 100% NOT TRUE. I am an HOA member of a RV Resort and that (downloading movies) has been one of our biggest problems. Our WIFI system was state of the art two years ago and we purchased a huge amount of band width at the time. However, with over 200 rv sites, and during the summer peak months, the park is 90% full and the amount of people downloading movies will bring our WIFI system to its knees. We have contemplated purchasing additional bandwidth, but it's just too darn expensive to go beyond what we already have.

So, we have printed on our info sheet, that is handed out to all visitors (renters), to NOT download movies.....but of course, not everyone adheres to this request; hence, the wifi will get really slow and it just is very disrespectful and frustrating to the other renters/owners.

Ron

ron, technology exists that will throttle a user's download speed to a crawl while streaming any sort of data while leaving everyone else's download speed untouched. ask whomever oversees your park's wifi network to take a look at that.

[wa8yxm]

If you are streaming movies (Netflix. blockbuster, et-al) on campground Wi-Fi and your computing neighbors find out.. MOVE.

If you much watch movies on the internet, Bring your own connection and expect to pay through the wallet. In another thread it is being ask, "How much bandwidth" Though most of the video I toss about the motor home (note, not over the internet, just the intranet (LAN, not WAN) is a different compression scheme but around a gig an hour is the most popular answer.

That kind of bandwidth use brands you a leach.

[lanerd]

paulcardoza wrote:
100% NOT TRUE. 99% of CG Wifi systems start out as junk.

lanerd wrote:
That is one of the main reasons why campground (rv parks) wifi systems are so crappy because people are hogging all the band width downloading movies.

Ron

And you Paul, are 100% NOT TRUE. I am an HOA member of a RV Resort and that (downloading movies) has been one of our biggest problems. Our WIFI system was state of the art two years ago and we purchased a huge amount of band width at the time. However, with over 200 rv sites, and during the summer peak months, the park is 90% full and the amount of people downloading movies will bring our WIFI system to its knees. We have contemplated purchasing additional bandwidth, but it's just too darn expensive to go beyond what we already have.

So, we have printed on our info sheet, that is handed out to all visitors (renters), to NOT download movies.....but of course, not everyone adheres to this request; hence, the wifi will get really slow and it just is very disrespectful and frustrating to the other renters/owners.

Ron

[dshinnick]

Even if you could, you shouldn't. I don't even stream Pandora when I'm not actively listening to it. When I have a large file to download I start it at bedtime and let it go overnight when few/any folks are trying to use wifi. If not done in the morning I pause it til that night, and resume.

[Bumpyroad]

SCVJeff wrote:

lanerd wrote:
That is one of the main reasons why campground (rv parks) wifi systems are so crappy because people are hogging all the band width downloading movies.

Ron

What he said..

somebody in a previous thread considered that for a campground to advertise wifi that it had to have a system where by each and every site in the campground could be streaming movies at the same time. :s
bumpy

[Bumpyroad]

az350x wrote:

Dennis M M wrote:
Many parks will ask you not to hog band width by streaming movies. I recommend going the Direct TV route.

Okay. So I have a home Directv system. Two HD receivers, one of which is old-fashioned 2-at-a-time Hd DVR. What's it going to cost to take directv on the road with me? Don't care about keeping stick-house live- it'll be empty.

well you gotta buy a dish, I bought one off Craig's list for about $20. use that and take a receiver with you.
bumpy

[Vet_Man]

I have a Verizon Hot stop, can use the internet while traveling down the road. $50 month

[rk911]

az350x wrote:
In your experience, how often do you have a good enough wi-fi signal to stream movies (Netflix, etc.) at a campground?

I'm weighing the hassle/expense of taking Directv on the road this summer...

almost never. maybe...maybe...if you were up really, really late at night and had the wifi service to yourselves. besides, if you're streaming, or I should say attempting to stream a video, you'll make it virtually impossible for others to do anything. most campground/rv park wifi systems are not designed for that sort of use. and for the last several years we have encountered more and more park systems that will throttle your download speed if it detects any data streaming, video or otherwise. if you want to stream Netflix then get your own hotspot device.

[SCVJeff]

Putting coverage aside, you need to define 'junk' in 2014. What used to be the gold standard (T1), is now mediocre at best for even a single user.