Working on the road

allenm wrote:
I assume by working on the road you mean from a campground. OK, so here is my pet peeve - the bandwidth at most campgrounds. The strength of the WiFi signal is a completely different issue. I carry a WiFi extender which works pretty well if I'm out a couple hundred feet from their antenna and am getting a weak signal.

But an extender does nothing for bandwidth. Most smaller campgrounds have about the same service you have at home. Works great for 1-2 users. Maybe ok for 3-4 users. But much more than 6 users it bogs it way down. Whatever bandwidth they have gets divided between users.

Larger campgrounds are probably going to have multiple WiFi hosts, but even that bogs way down with so many users these days trying to stream video and audio.

I got so frustrated I went out and got my own G4 WiFi hot spot. I haven't found many campgrounds where I couldn't get a good signal but that would probably be a different story out west.

It's costly. It's also surprising how much data one uses for normal tasks. My wife and I don't stream any music or movies. We just do email, transfer normal spreadsheets and docs and some browsing. We normally use up our 20GB plan sometimes go a little over.

If you need exceptional bandwidth for your employment, you need to provide it. The wifi at the RV park is not designed for guests to use for commercial activities. You would get the same results if you tried to use the other campground services for commercial activities. For example, our septic and waste disposal services are not sized for someone to staying with us to run septic pumping service waste through it. Our fresh water system is not sized to allow a fire fighting outfit staying in the park to fill their water trucks.
Working on the road often will require you to provide ALL the resources you need. You shouldn't depend upon others.