We were approached by a current subscriber who is building an RV park with around ~100 pads, and he wants us to offer service to his tenants. This isn't the typical situation where we would sell service to the RV park, and they handle distributing it to their customers. He wants to avoid providing wi-fi himself, and will instead let us charge every client that wants service separately. Also, this isn't a campground; his shortest lease term will be monthly.
While the park is under construction, he is willing to let us lay conduit, so we could provide wired service to each pad if we wanted to. Alternatively, we could just setup a bunch of wi-fi APs. One potential complication is that we have a fairly busy cluster of 5g PMP450s a couple hundred yards from this RV park, so while wired service could be more reliable for the park tenants, the potential for 100 customer wi-fi routers we can't control operating within sight of our PMP450 POP sounds like the stuff of nightmares. We are leaning more towards a wi-fi option due to better control over spectrum, as well as avoiding maintenance of 100 outdoor ethernet ports that the customers would be plugging into, but we are open to suggestions. Also, assuming wi-fi is the correct answer, does anyone have any equipment recommendations? The park is about 400' by 900'. I was looking at either doing a whole bunch of low end APs, or maybe ~8 sectors. We haven't used any of the Cambium wi-fi gear yet, but the cnPilot E501S looks interesting. Thank you, Chris Starritt Western Broadband supp...@ecpi.com 512-257-1077
