Be careful of selling service over Wi-FI... customers buy "signal boosters" that run their own DHCP server, or they see a very strong signal to their booster and complain that their service sucks (don't understand that the signal from the booster to your network is low). And there's interference from mobile hotspots etc....
I would do like Adam says, run ethernet lines everywhere with outdoor-grade ethernet connection boxes (make sure to have a surge protector on each line as it returns to your switch). You can try offering some service over wifi but tell customers that if they want reliable speeds they need to hardwire. On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:07 PM, castarritt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > 512-257-1077 >
