Wifi Options
Mar. 17th, 2012 01:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisDear Lazywebz:
My campground has a new wifi offering. One can purchase relatively speedy wifi from an outsourced provider by the hour, day, week, month, etc.. Alas, once one has purchased the wifi access, it isn't transferable between devices: if you bought it on your laptop, you can't just logout & login with your tablet or mobile phone.
Is there some novel hardware or software mechanism by which I could create an in-house (in-trailer) shared hotspot while purchasing just a single $100 per season package for one device?
Alternatively, I already pay for hotspot functionality with Verizon Wireless via my mobile phone but the signal strength in extreme rural West Virginia is so feeble that I get only "1X" data rather than 3G or 4G LTE, and even that meagre offering is only available on good weather days from the south end of the trailer deck. Does anyone have a recommendation on a repeater/amplifier which could boost the gain enough that my phone could latch onto the 3G network and thus use my Verizon hotspot instead of the camp's wifi?
Help me, Obiwan: you're my only hope!
My campground has a new wifi offering. One can purchase relatively speedy wifi from an outsourced provider by the hour, day, week, month, etc.. Alas, once one has purchased the wifi access, it isn't transferable between devices: if you bought it on your laptop, you can't just logout & login with your tablet or mobile phone.
Is there some novel hardware or software mechanism by which I could create an in-house (in-trailer) shared hotspot while purchasing just a single $100 per season package for one device?
Alternatively, I already pay for hotspot functionality with Verizon Wireless via my mobile phone but the signal strength in extreme rural West Virginia is so feeble that I get only "1X" data rather than 3G or 4G LTE, and even that meagre offering is only available on good weather days from the south end of the trailer deck. Does anyone have a recommendation on a repeater/amplifier which could boost the gain enough that my phone could latch onto the 3G network and thus use my Verizon hotspot instead of the camp's wifi?
Help me, Obiwan: you're my only hope!
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Date: 2012-03-17 04:28 pm (UTC)The coverage of non-Verizon wireless providers completely sucks here. We're simply so rural, the population so sparse and the terrain so hostile to RF (undulating tall hills with sharp, deep valleys), it's a telecom nightmare. Sprint voice reaches here but not data. AT&T voice is spotty and their data connectivity even more so. Verizon, sucky though it may be, is the strongest provider here.
Your idea of using a primary laptop and sharing via a secondary router occurred to me. For our next visit, I can try bringing a spare wifi router with cabling to see what I can cobble together. It would be nicer to have a standalone repeater/dhcp server appliance which could live at the trailer permanently but I'll take what I can get.