WiFi
Is it safe to assume that pretty much all RV campgrounds, both public and private, offer free WiFi. Obviously, we wouldn't expect WiFi in primitive areas. WiFi is important to us as it is our prim...
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Perhaps something can be learned from a recent experience we had.
We stopped at a campground in Cherry county, Nebraska, which is bigger than many states, but far less populated. When we checked in at the campground, I asked the camp host about over the air television. She told me that you could only get one PBS signal, but we could use the wi-fi to watch Netflix. She was correct about the television signal, but when I attempted to get on Wi-if to check email, it was obvious we would not be streaming Netflix. Perhaps she was already watching House of Cards.
You don't build an eight lane highway in a rural area, and, if you did, you would not allow someone moving a house to block all of the lanes for a long period of time.
The bottom line is that the cost to provide a streaming to all campers would be cost prohibitive, perhaps as much as $3000 per month. It is not realistic to expect a campground to spend that kind of money on internet infrastructure.
The only fair way for most campgrounds to offer internet access is to block streaming. That would prevent one person from hogging all of the bandwidth, and allow the rest of us to check our email. If you mest stream, pay for your own hot spot.
We stopped at a campground in Cherry county, Nebraska, which is bigger than many states, but far less populated. When we checked in at the campground, I asked the camp host about over the air television. She told me that you could only get one PBS signal, but we could use the wi-fi to watch Netflix. She was correct about the television signal, but when I attempted to get on Wi-if to check email, it was obvious we would not be streaming Netflix. Perhaps she was already watching House of Cards.
You don't build an eight lane highway in a rural area, and, if you did, you would not allow someone moving a house to block all of the lanes for a long period of time.
The bottom line is that the cost to provide a streaming to all campers would be cost prohibitive, perhaps as much as $3000 per month. It is not realistic to expect a campground to spend that kind of money on internet infrastructure.
The only fair way for most campgrounds to offer internet access is to block streaming. That would prevent one person from hogging all of the bandwidth, and allow the rest of us to check our email. If you mest stream, pay for your own hot spot.
