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Originally Posted by MidMOTraveler
That’s great but usually campgrounds don’t have enough bandwidth to provide good service. At least that’s our experience.
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How do you know? if you do not have proper reception equipment to maximize your share of bandwidth. Unless you are parked next to the office where it is usually located. The other issue is the lack of repeaters in many campgrounds also reduces your reception (that is often intentional by the campground).
While it is true for some/many Campgrounds however this is evolving with demand meaning many Campgrounds are increasing their Bandwidth to attract those that telecommute and have more digital requirements, many will not even stay at a Campground without reasonable WIFI. The Range Extending Antennas give you the advantage in many campgrounds while a few close to the router get Ok bandwidth those that are further do not ot get nothing, so having access to maximum bandwidth available all the time where ever you are located in the park, whatever it is is a plus. For those of us that camp and work during the daytime campground bandwidth is usually wide open.
Here in the PNW being very mountainess Cell Data is rarely strong and often non existent and more often then not the WIFI is better than cell. For us it is rare that we can find a campground that has more then 2 bars of cell. I also have the Weboost Cell range extender but that really only has a radius of 4-8' from the antenna inside the coach.
Now with that said the King Falcon can also take your cell Data and create a more robust and larger footprint of your hotspot as hotspot range from your phone is very limited especially in multiple users are present.
Unfortunately you need an arsenal of equipment these days and the data environment is so different from place to place where you cannot rely on one or the other but you need both (again I say need as I work while camping).
One final observation. unfortunately the cost of cell data is not coming down nor is the demand, real 5G is still a ways out and even then Rural areas will be the last to get it so we are talking years. Here in the PNW if you do not have Verizon you will find little to no data from the other carriers in the Rural PNW, unfortunately data plans from Verizon and many know is expensive and still has its own bandwidth issues during peak hours. While other parts of country may vary these are our conditions here in the PNW and the West (Non Desert) in General.