Wii fi connection

[AL’ UM- MONEY]

I’m sure this has been addressed but I’m not very computer knowledgeable. To get the camp Ground wii fi through the aluminum skin so you can use it instead of sitting outside. Looks like weboost is cell not wii fi. Is there an easy product, antenna or power booster that will allow for an inside signal? Thanks.

[s1000pre]

I would focus more on a good cell plan. After visiting over 50 campgrounds, I haven’t found one with useful Wi-Fi. I installed a pepwave router, then contacted AT&T directly for a service plan. I had really bad luck with service plans from a reseller. I also have a Weboost Drive “Reach” RV. I had the Drive X RV, pay the money for the Reach, it does a much better job.
If you have AT&T or Verizon and enough data on your current cell plan. I would try it without the router and experiment with only the Weboost. You can then hotspot your devices from your phone.

[n2916s]

If you Google exterior WiFi antennas, there are lots available. The problem is mounting one and then feeding the cable into the airstream and to your device. Said device must have a means to accept an external antenna.

All difficulties that may be be overcome with varying degrees of effort.

However, the payoff is still likely to be poor. Most RV Campground WiFi systems are fairly weak to begin in with. Get a couple of folks to start streaming and soon the system is a snarled mess with barely enough throughput to send texts.

Since the trend lately has been to streaming over cellular, “free WiFi” as a campground feature has faded as a priority to the point that few owners are making any effort to upgrade their archaic systems.

[Dennis C]

As mentioned above, I typically use a Verizon Jetpack with weBoost. It works well most of the time. If I can’t get a Verizon signal, than I use my AT&T phone as a hotspot. Obviously there are lots of remote places where you simply can’t get any signal.

[richard5933]

I use a Ubiquiti antenna mounted in a window pointing towards the campground's WiFi. It's connected to another device which acts as a router inside our trailer to create our own network. This has worked for us in many campgrounds to be able to use campground WiFi, although at times it's not good for much more than casual browsing or email. But, we have had success doing this to stream movies and TV in many places.

The nice thing about a system like this is we only have to connect to the campground once on the router/antenna combo. All our devices connect to our router automatically and don't need to be connected each time we get to a new campground. Plus, it adds a layer of security between our devices and the campground's WiFi.

[Mollysdad]

Here's the bad news.
The people like us who only use internet for a few items like checking e-mail have been bypassed by the Big Tech providers. All the high tech kits sell in the hundreds while provider plans can run several hundred a month.
Yes, campground wi-fi is almost never reliable. I was willing to buy a Jet Pack and a suction cup antenna for a window if I could find a service plan under $50.
Meanwhile, I use my phone as a 'hotspot' and connect to it as if it were wi-fi.
Be aware that data for texts and browsing is NOT the same data used as a hotspot. You may have unlimited data, but only 1 gig of hot spot data.

[Rich Jenkins]

Originally Posted by n2916s

If you Google exterior WiFi antennas, there are lots available. The problem is mounting one and then feeding the cable into the airstream and to your device. Said device must have a means to accept an external antenna.

All difficulties that may be be overcome with varying degrees of effort.

However, the payoff is still likely to be poor. Most RV Campground WiFi systems are fairly weak to begin in with. Get a couple of folks to start streaming and soon the system is a snarled mess with barely enough throughput to send texts.

Since the trend lately has been to streaming over cellular, “free WiFi” as a campground feature has faded as a priority to the point that few owners are making any effort to upgrade their archaic systems.

Spot. On.

I spent a good part of our extended travel in '17 and '18 on the road fiddling around with a WiFi repeater system I built. I had two routers; one to connect to the RV Park ("camp") and one to connect devices in the Airstream. The internal facing one got it's connection via a 1' ethernet cable to a DHCP port on the "camp" router. I used a 10' cable and a short magnetic mount antenna for the WiFi that I ran through the door to collect the RV park signal. I reflashed the "camp" router with DD-WRT, so I could set it up as a repeater. I mean, it was good in the sense that everything in the coach just "ran" as soon as I got the "camp" Wifi attached to the RV Park signal. But it also meant having to work out the protocol and encryption type of each and every RV park we arrived at, which was never straightforward because of how much they vary.

I'll say in almost every instance, the RV park WiFi, at best, was poor with high latency and slow data rate, so I found the juice very much not worth the squeeze.

Lately we stumbled onto a special offer by Verizon of 999 Gb a month in addition to our normal 2G a month shared plan, so we've been using that the last five months. I use my phone for my laptop and the smart TV, my DW uses her hotspot for her tablet. It's vastly easier than messing around with my WiFi repeater setup and much faster as well.

I still have my setup in the coach but it's more for hobby interest than anything else these days.

I agree with the above, save your money to invest in a good cell phone plan and skip the RV Park WiFi altogether.