Re: Wireless for RV campground

You may want to also consider your target audience... long term,
overnighters, a mixture of both? While there are a few geeks that have their
own sats/waps/new stuff/etc, and some that have wireless networks in their
rv's (assume interference from one of those) the majority (not all) are
older/retired/have older laptops/just want to email/see pix of the
grandkids/probably only want b/g/etc.... since they have HS internet, you
may want to consider an ip phone/cordless phone combo (cheap/usually under
$25 a year (not month)... i use a magicjack on the office computer
http://www.magicjack.com), stay here... free unlimited outgoing calls to
your family within the lower 48 on our cordless phone in the clubhouse, and
a hs wired connection off a router for big/fast downloads, one person doing
a huge update over wireless will kill everyone elses thruput),

JohnB wrote:
Very good idea!
This project isn't a high priority with the campground owner, he's in
no hurry. And I've been busy lately with other things, so I haven't
done much with this. I'm going to try and get over there this week,
to try the tests you suggested. And... to look around at what's
available for conduit that's already in the ground.

Yup.... lots of good suggestions / information / discussion on this
thread. I appreciate all of it. Learned a lot. As I progress on
this project, I'll post back on here, to update all those that have
helped on how this turned out.


"ps56k" <pschuman_no_spam_me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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this has been an interesting "academic" discussion,
and learned a lot as usual -

but back to the simple & real world...
For - John.B.

1 - what is your broadband connection & speed - in both directions -

2 - get any WAP that support 802.11B/G -
put it up on the clubhouse - don't need a WAN connection -
and run around the site with a laptop.... just monitor the signal
strength,
that will tell you where your baseline best case coverage exists

If that doesn't cut it - it ain't gonna happen inside a trailer -

Next - take the WAP and just plant it around the area,
with no connection to a WAN -
just some AC, power it up - and do more "site surveying"
to see how your WAP can be used to cover the area.

That will give you a starting point - of reality -
then you can get back to the academic discussions.....


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