How many RV travelers are set up for ethernet vs WiFi? From: Jason McKemie Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2018 6:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] RV park network design
I'd do fiber as well, seems like that many long-run cat5/6 connections could be problematic. On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, Cameron Crum <[email protected]> wrote: Why run ethernet? This seems ideal for fiber. Put a small box for the ONT on the same pole as the electrical hookup with about 20 ft of ethernet cable so they can drag it through a window and call it a day. Rent them a cheap router if they want wifi or mount a small loco ac or something running as a low powered AP and alternate frequencies every 3 or 4 spaces. On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote: 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
