Painfully slow internet

I'm an AT&T customer and don't like them at all, especially since they acquired DirecTV and took the company with #1 customer satisfaction and turned them into jerks too.

Having said that, one benefit of the merger that we like to utilize is the fact that streaming DirecTV content via your AT&T devices doesn't count against your data usage.

It's kind of an Orwellian logic since the data plan is called "unlimited", but they throttle the speed after a monthly data threshold is reached. Any DirecTV content that you stream doesn't count against that threshold.

Super_Dave wrote:
Campground WiFi is snail slow with over a minute to load pages. Anyway to speed it up?

I see all kinds of posts with wifi issues. What are you using the wifi for? if it is for streaming tv or such there are other ways to do this that eliminate the wifi altogether.

I use a cell phone with a subscription to HULU on my phone. I can screen cast this to my tv via a poku stick.

1. on the tv with the roku set it up so it accepts all devices wanting to "cast"
2. find the way to turn on screen casting/mirroring or whatever you phone calls it.
3. When the casting window comes up select your roku device on you smart phone.
4. ON the tv the roku will try to create a network and a popup will come up asking to setup a network or continue. Select continue.

Now you can watch hulu or whatever is on your phone on the TV.

There are lots of options we have 2 spare phones And a gl.inet portable router that we tether the att or visible prepaid phones to, we have a we boost rv booster that we set up if we need more signal.

Look at visible.com for an affordable prepaid service that supports tethering. With that and this mobile router we have decent internet most places
https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-AR750S-Ext-pre-Installed-Cloudflare-Included/dp/B07GBXMBQF

There are lots of options we have 2 spare phones And a gl.net portable router that we tether the att or visible prepaid phones to, we have a we boost rv booster that we set up if we need more signal.

Look at visible.com for an affordable prepaid service that supports tethering. With that and this mobile router we have decent internet most places
https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-AR750S-Ext-pre-Installed-Cloudflare-Included/dp/B07GBXMBQF

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We use the Winegard Connect2. It almost always improves rv Park wifi. When boondocking we use the 4G feature (10 gigs for $60) for wifi hotspot.
JK

OTR Mobile, your own cell based wifi signal.

I almost never stay in RV parks, but the few times I did, the Wifi either did not work or barely worked. My solution has been to use my cellphone as a computer hotspot. With any decent signal that works well. I have been able to do YouTube and Skype.

Super_Dave wrote:
Campground WiFi is snail slow with over a minute to load pages. Anyway to speed it up?

It's well known in the RV community, that campground WiFi is usually worthless unless you're doing emails.
That's why so many of us use cellphones as hotspots.

Currently parked in the mountains between Gunnison and Montrose, CO. Our ATT phones have 0 bars, we can drive 1/2 mile to kinda make a phone call. But we have a Pepwave Max BR1 cell router with a Poyntang MIMO antenna mounted on a 1'x2' ground plane (this is very important) on the roof and are getting 1-4 bars depending on the wind :). We can get email and have slow internet but it does work. A booster would probably give us a bit better signal but probably not any faster speeds. This is on an ATT unlimited plan.

Super_Dave wrote:
Some of you that are speaking techie are being helpful but a little over my head. My phone has unlimited but not hot spot. Is Webboost a standalone system or are there other pieces of the puzzle?

WeBoost takes an existing cell phone signal and makes it stronger. A one bar signal may go up to three bars. Three may go to four. It will not create a cell phone signal if nothing is there to begin with. A zero signal area is still a zero signal with a booster.

That still only creates a stronger cell phone signal. You then must convert the cell phone signal into a wifi signal. A Verizon Jet Pack does it. Most other carriers offer similar. Many smart phones have one built in (tether, wifi, hotspot -- different phones call it different). A dedicated jet pack is usually faster, though.
If you go this route you are using your cell phone plan data or minutes. If you have unlimited then all is good. If you have a cap you have to keep an eye on your data usage.