Wow this thread blew up while I was sleeping.
I'm proposing both a wireless and fiber solution. I'm sure they'll pick
WiFi because it'll be cheaper, but I wanted to put all the cards on the
table.
As far as why I'm bothering to propose fiber:
1) If there's fiber to the power pedestal, and each ped (or every other
ped) has it's own little router with it's own SSID and key, then there's
a security benefit vs having everybody in the park be able to sniff
traffic from each other's devices.
2) We could track any illegal/bad/weird activity to a specific RV site
(or at least to the proximity of one).
3) The changing positions and occupancy of RV sites won't affect
anybody's WiFi because their WiFi will be right next to them no matter
what. Neither will the growth of trees hurt them.
4) No capacity issue in the park (and the feed TO the park can of course
always be upgraded).
5) Infinitely upgrade-able.
6) We have all the equipment and personnel and we want to use them.
There's an indefinite amount of work for them expanding and improving
our own network, but if they do it for the campground we can bill them out.
-Adam
On 6/11/2020 5:48 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
Why are you doing fiber?
We have a 300 unit RV park where everyone is required to stream over
the Internet, no satellite dishes are allowed.
It works absolutely fine and everything is back hauled wirelessly to
the sectors that cover several RV campers.
On Jun 11, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah I'm assuming WiFi would be everyone's first choice, and that's
part of why I'm thinking WiFi from the pedestal. I just thought it
would be nice to have the option to plug in a cable.
I did find a comms enclosure that bolts onto the back side of the RV
power ped. http://www.rvparksupplies.com/p/ACCESSBOXPHONECABLE/.
<http://www.rvparksupplies.com/p/ACCESSBOXPHONECABLE/>
Waiting for them to send me more details, but I think that might give
me a place for the ONT, and incidentally there appear to be two
keystone jacks in it. My two reasons for suggesting this approach
are that each RV gets their own WiFi instead of sharing it with
everybody around them, and if there was ever a law enforcement issue
we could track the usage to a particular site rather than just
"somewhere in the park".
On 6/11/2020 4:54 PM, Robert Andrews wrote:
As an "RVer" I will say that we are all set up for WiFi connections
and doing a hardwire would be something that we _never_ plan for.
Don't even carry and ethernet cable...
On 06/11/2020 01:30 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
If you run fiber to RV sites, what do you put in at the site?
I'm imagining I'd end with a WiFi enabled ONT in a box, on a post
next to their power and water hookups. I'd want the campers to be
able to plug Ethernet in at the box if they have the wherewithal to
do so. And if they don't then they have their own private WiFi
right outside their RV.
....of course I could get little Hoffman boxes and put this
together, but I'm betting someone must have made a product for this
already.
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