Best WiFi Extender for RV?

I bought a simple little USB antenna gadget that seemed to work quite well. It was purchased for our trip to Tennessee a couple years ago.
I don't remember what it is, nor do I remember WHERE it is, haven't used it for a long time.

mowermech wrote:
I bought a simple little USB antenna gadget that seemed to work quite well. It was purchased for our trip to Tennessee a couple years ago.
I don't remember what it is, nor do I remember WHERE it is, haven't used it for a long time.

If you can find out what it's called I'd appreciate it. I like to do a lot of research before I make a purchase.

Check out Hawking Technology.

Mandalay Parr wrote:
Check out Hawking Technology.

At my old work, Hawking had the cheapest POS hardware I'd ever seen. I don't know if they've improved, or if we just bought their low end product, but it was really bad. Their switches used to literally melt themselves overheating.

However, I'll do a quick google search and see what I can find.

I just received my wifi booster from Wilson Amplifiers cost was 179. and it increased out wifi from almost nothing to a signal that I can Skype our grandkids from inside of our MH. We are currently at Eglin AFB Famcamp and if anyone has been here sprint is weak. I would consider looking into one of these. www.wilsonamplifiers.com so far I am very happy and they give a 30 day return no questions asked policy.

I've been using the Wifi Ranger Go2 with the Sky on the roof for almost three months now and have mixed feelings about it. Most of the parks we stayed at (over 15) have very bad wifi and there is nothing a WIFI extender can do to help the situation.

But what really annoys me is that my Go2 keeps rebooting often when there is a bad connection. I alternate between a Verizon mifi and an ATT Mifi to supplement the campground wifi and the Go2 can be a real pain in the buttocks.

At least three times now, it reset itself to default settings after rebooting and the two units weren't communicating with each other. I had to call for technical support the first time, but they don't take live calls. You have to leave a message and they get back to you. Hopefully, you'll be in your RV when they call. I wasn't.

After walking through how to reconfigure the thing with tech support, I did the next two times myself. There were times where it would reboot itself (but not reset to factory defaults) at least 5 - 10 times per day.

If I knew of a better solution, I'd jump on it immediately.

I have used the simple Alpha long range wifi adapter and it worked well for me. But now I'm fulltiming and I've got about 10 devices that need to connect so a router is a better choice for me.

Ramair wrote:
I just received my wifi booster from Wilson Amplifiers cost was 179. and it increased out wifi from almost nothing to a signal that I can Skype our grandkids from inside of our MH. We are currently at Eglin AFB Famcamp and if anyone has been here sprint is weak. I would consider looking into one of these. www.wilsonamplifiers.com so far I am very happy and they give a 30 day return no questions asked policy.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll definitely look into this one!

holstein13 wrote:
I've been using the Wifi Ranger Go2 with the Sky on the roof for almost three months now and have mixed feelings about it. Most of the parks we stayed at (over 15) have very bad wifi and there is nothing a WIFI extender can do to help the situation.

But what really annoys me is that my Go2 keeps rebooting often when there is a bad connection. I alternate between a Verizon mifi and an ATT Mifi to supplement the campground wifi and the Go2 can be a real pain in the buttocks.

At least three times now, it reset itself to default settings after rebooting and the two units weren't communicating with each other. I had to call for technical support the first time, but they don't take live calls. You have to leave a message and they get back to you. Hopefully, you'll be in your RV when they call. I wasn't.

After walking through how to reconfigure the thing with tech support, I did the next two times myself. There were times where it would reboot itself (but not reset to factory defaults) at least 5 - 10 times per day.

If I knew of a better solution, I'd jump on it immediately.

I have used the simple Alpha long range wifi adapter and it worked well for me. But now I'm fulltiming and I've got about 10 devices that need to connect so a router is a better choice for me.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to check out the wilson amplifiers recommended in the previous post and do some more research on the first one I posted. It has a lot of good reviews, but more recently the reviews have gone downhill.

I have an couple of inexpensive usb wifi adapters, both of them under $25 and both of them always bring in an excellent signal. IMHO it's not the strength of the wifi signal, but the total campground bandwidth that seems to be the constant issue. It's fine at 3:00 in the afternoon but at 10:00pm it stinks.

ericosmith wrote:
I have an couple of inexpensive usb wifi adapters, both of them under $25 and both of them always bring in an excellent signal. IMHO it's not the strength of the wifi signal, but the total campground bandwidth that seems to be the constant issue. It's fine at 3:00 in the afternoon but at 10:00pm it stinks.

Good point, but the amplifiers do help.